ANESTHESIOLOGY is the medical speciality concerned with the total perioperative care of patients before, during and after surgery. It encompasses anesthesia, Intensive care medicine, critical emergency medicine and pain medicine. An ANESTHESIOLOGIST is a doctor who gives a patient medication so they do not feel pain when they are undergoing surgery. It includes:

• General Anaesthesia
• Regional Anaesthesia
• Sedation
• Local Anaesthesia