Introduction to Anaesthesia Technology
The anaesthesia course equips the students with the techniques involved in anaesthesia administration, types of anaesthesia agents and also ensures them to closely monitor the patients under anaesthesia influence. The students will be learning about various subjects like fundamentals of the operation theatres, emergency wards, intensive care units (ICU), crucial cardiac-care units (CCU), trauma care centres, etc. The students of anaesthesia will also understand the real-time monitoring of the patients that are under the influence of anaesthesia. The anaesthesia students will be assisting the doctors and surgeons in operation theatres and emergency wards. The course has both theoretical and practical ways for helping the students and developing them into skilled and successful anaesthetists.
The B.Sc Anaesthesia course is the 3-years degree programme that can be chosen soon after the completion of the PUC/12th. The students should have studied any of the three subjects from the following: Physics, Chemistry, Biology/Zoology/Botany in their PUC or 10+2 or equivalent with a minimum 45% aggregate in all the subjects.
Reasons for studying Anaesthesia course
Anaesthesia is one of the most underrated courses in the field of medicine. Every year a large number of students who aspire for MBBS seats may not be successful in getting medical seats. In this disappointment these students overlook many other courses of allied health sciences. The lack of awareness has been the main issue due to which very few students join this course. The anaesthesia course offers many benefits for the students. Some of the them are listed below:
It is an exhilarating field
Anaesthesia technologists may put people to sleep but their jobs are anything but a snooze due to their acute nature. The work of anaesthesia technologists takes place in more acute situations. The field of anaesthesia is very practical and pragmatic because it is very interesting and intellectually satisfying. There are plenty of subspecialties within anaesthesia field that have their own importance. Majority of anaesthesia technologists work in operation theatre along with a variety of surgical specialities including eyes, cardiac or neuro or ENT. There is a dedicated field for paediatric anaesthesia and many choose to work in this field. Some may work in labour ward and intensive care units (ICUs) in hospitals.
Opportunity to enjoy a lot of variety
It may seem that working as an anaesthesia technologist may be limited on paper but in reality, it is extremely varied. The anaesthesia technologists care for patients of all ages across a broad range of medical conditions. From heart and brain surgeries to birth and traumas anaesthesia technologists work on many different types of cases. Apart from working in hospital operating rooms, the anaesthesia technologists are also required to work in other places. Their expertise is needed in different areas like invasive radiology, gastrointestinal endoscopy, electrophysiology and more.
