This Department is playing an important role for providing proper and good medical care for patients in Rashid hospital. The anesthesia team performs all types of Anesthesia (regional, general and conscious sedation), including the pre-anesthetic assessment and preparation of patients in coordination with others teams and specialties. They are responsible for providing a proper preoperative and post-operative care.

The radiological services which include:

∙          The anesthesia team in coordination with Emergency Critical Care Department (ECCD) Team, manages the respiratory and mechanical ventilation in Intensive Care Unit-ICU (16 beds), Intensive Care Unit in the Infectious Disease Unit (IDU) (2 beds) and in the Coronary care Unit (CCU) (12 beds).

∙          Transporting any critically ill patient for diagnostic or therapeutic procedures inside or outside the hospital.

∙          Providing educational programs for the hospital staff regarding:

1.     CPR & Airway management

2.     Care for Critical ill patients

3.     And post operative care

Comprehensive Service List

∙          Pre-anaesthetic evaluation of all patients for operative, diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. Anaesthesia assessment clinic functioning every working day for outpatient assessment of elective surgical patients.

∙          Administration of general and regional anaesthesia and conscious sedation / analgesia to the patients of different disciplines scheduled for surgery.

∙          Providing Epidural service for obstetric pain relief.

∙          Cardio-pulmonary resuscitation procedures as part of the Dubai Hospital Resuscitation Team.

∙          Management of the very sick patients including ventilatory and cardiovascular support in coordination with the intensivists in the ICU.

∙          24 hours coverage for 1st and 2nd on-call duty and consultant coverage for Dubai Hospital.

∙          24 hours coverage for Disaster Emergency.

∙          24 hours coverage for Al-Maktoum Hospital.

∙          Escorting the patients from Dubai Hospital to the appropriate units in the other hospitals.

∙          Supervision and training of junior medical staff and levels of assistance during the administration of anesthesia.