Dr.D.Balaji., MBBS., MS., DNB.

Consultant General and laparoscopic surgeon

Intensive care and anesthesia department 

Anesthesia is a procedure of administering anesthetic drugs to induce loss of feeling and awareness before a surgical procedure. 

Intensive care is a part of Medicine in which intensivists manage and treat patients who are critically Ill, suffering with life threatening injuries, needing post surgical management and need infection control. 

At Mahalakshmi Multispeciality Hospital 

The department consists of 2 full time and 4 part time consultant anaesthetists,  giving 24*7 anaesthesia cover for all emergency and elective surgical cases.  

We have 2 major operation theatres and one minor operation theatre with laminar flow and state of anaesthesia machine and monitor from GE.

Our team is excellent in giving anaesthesia for all high risk surgical patients, backed by a team of consultants from various other specialists. 

We have a usg machine at the anaesthesia department for giving regional anaesthesia and post operative pain relief under usg guidance.

We have given anaesthesia to neurosurgical cases, pediatric cases, oncological cases laparoscopic surgeries and complicated vascular and  lung surgeries in our department.

With the help of c arm and usg machine, Various pain care treatments like epidural steroids and plexus blocks have been given by our department specialist.

We are giving anaesthesia to more than 150 patients per month..

Day care surgeries pediatric surgeries urological interventions are the routine day to day affairs of our department

Special anaesthesia techniques for labour and childbirth including epidural labour analgesia for painless labour and anaesthesia various gynaecology procedures which are in general done under laparoscopic..

Anaesthesia for gastroenterology surgeries with combined epi ga techniques to take care post operative pain relief were done routinely

Education: 

He had graduated from Madras Medical and had completed DNB too.

Memberships:
He is a member of Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, since 2016

Expertise:
He is highly trained in General, Laparoscopic and laser surgeries

Completed over 2000 major surgeries like Gastrectomy, Hemicolectomy, Anterior Resection and Colorectal surgeries. 

Completed over 500 laparoscopic cholecystectomy surgeries 

Completed over 1000 laparoscopic Appendicectomy surgeries 

Completed over 200 laparoscopic Hernia surgeries 

Completed over 100 laser surgeries 

He is a pioneer in breast, thyroid and varicose vein surgeries