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<P><B>HI, and welcome to my home page!!</B></P>
<P><B>The Department of Anaesthesia & ICU in Ahmadi Hospital is part of the Medical Group of the Kuwait Oil
company. The Hospital provides services to all the oil sector employees and their eleligible families. Approximately
over 3000 anaesthetic administrations are done in a year. The department consists of 6 anaesthetists headed by
Dr.Ahmed Mugib Sharif. The other members are Dr. Giridhara Rao, Dr.Abdul Halim Ghazi, Dr. Jeyadev, Dr.T.V.Srinivasan
and Dr. Antonio Lima Dias.</B></P>
<P><B>Safety, Quality assurance, State of the art technology and keeping abreast with current lirterature has been
the bastion of the department. Laryngeal Mask anaesthesia and Fiberoptic intubation have been our special interests.
Dr.Andranik Ovassapian from Northwestern University Medical school, Chicago, Illinois visited our department in
1995, and we gained hands on experience in Fiberoptic laryngobronchoscopy in his presence. Our relentless persuit
of learning this technique paid rich dividends and now it is a matter of routine in our daily practice.</B></P>
<P><B>The Hospital introduced an ambitious project of Hospital Information system in late 1996 with the support
of Information technology and Information systems of Kuwait Oil company. An integrated Star Navigator system of
HBO-ACI of Atlanta provided the software, training and implementation. I was one of the team of co-ordinators,
representaing the surgical services Division; with the concerted efforts of individual coordinators of various
disciplines, and great team work the System was launched in September 1997, the first of its kind in Kuwait.</B></P>
<P><B>The Department of Anaesthesia went one step ahead with a future vision of introducing the Anaesthesia Information
Management system (AIMS). The request for proposal has been made and it is likely by the end of 1999, the Hospital
should be having an Automated Anaesthesia delivery system and an Automated Anaesthesia Record Keeping (AARK) system.
Interfacing the Anaesthesia Information system to the existing Hospital Information should be our final goal. It
is proposed to install the Datex- Engstrom for the Automated Anaesthesia system.</B></P>
<P><B>To see more information on anaesthesia updates, department activities and developments in Hospital Information
system, click on the topics.</B></P>
<P><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000066" FACE="Arial"><B>My E-Mail address</B></FONT><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000066" FACE="Arial">
</FONT><A HREF="mailto:drtvs@hotmail.com"><FONT SIZE="2" FACE="Arial">drtvs@hotmail.com</FONT></A></P>
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