The Services of Onco-Anaesthesia, Intensive Care, Pain and Palliative Medicine are an integral part of National Cancer Institute, Jhajjar, All India Institute of Medical Sciences. The Department works alongside the department of Onco-Anaesthesia and Palliative Medicine, Dr.BRAIRCH under the able headship of Dr (Prof) Sushma Bhatnagar. The department provide services to anesthesiology, intensive care, pain and palliative care and emergency medicine as well. All of them are professionally qualified anesthesiologists and critical care physicians and have gained experience as palliative care personnel in the advanced cancer patients referred for pain and other symptom management. They have many years of teaching experience as well.

 The mission of the Department is to provide state-of-art and comprehensive care for patients with cancer with both curative and palliative intent. It includes services for various diagnostic interventions, surgical procedures, pain and palliative procedures. The department has a 24-bedded palliative care ward for providing inpatient palliative care of oncology patients which provides round the clock services for acute and chronic pain management as well. The ward has well trained nursing staff and physiotherapist for improving the quality of life for cancer palliative care. The department also manages one operation theatre dedicated for interventions in palliative care patients for symptom and pain management.

The department has 25-bedded intensive care unit which provides care for critically ill patients from surgical oncology, medical oncology and radiation oncology departments. The ICU is well equipped with state-of-art technology and well-trained manpower.

The department provides comprehensive care for the surgical procedures. It has pre-anaesthetic clinic for preoperative evaluation and optimization for surgical interventions. The operating rooms are well equipped with state-of-art infrastructure including anesthesia workstations and other ancillary equipments like invasive monitoring devices, intubating fiberscope, ultrasound machines etc. The centre has well equipped recovery area providing immediate care to postsurgical patients. All surgical patients receives acute pain management services round the clock supervised by the faculty. The department provides point of care technology with ultrasound for diagnostic (vascular access, nerve blocks, volume responsiveness assessment, and for therapeutic purposes (pleurocentesis, optimization of cardiovascular function in various types of shock) in the operating room, palliative care ward and Intensive care

The department provide emergency services including airway management and ventilatory support to patients admitted with other specialties like surgical oncology, medical oncology and radiation oncology. The services for management of pain due to chemotherapy or radiation therapy are also provided to these departments round the clock.

We also run  OPDs 5 days in a week where we examine and treat cancer pain patients and admit patients if required to the palliative care. In theses OPDs we also see patients for pre anesthesia check ups.