Dr. Soumya Rao

Dr Soumya Rao is an Anaesthesiologist in Shimoga with 21 years of experience. She practices at Sahyadri Narayana Multispeciality Hospital, Harakere.

She specialises in general anaesthesia, cardiac anaesthesia, adult critical care, and regional pain management. Her clinical focus includes spinal anaesthesia, epidural analgesia, and intraoperative physiological monitoring.

Area of Expertise

General Anaesthesia and Airway Management

Dr Soumya Rao manages anaesthetic risks in individuals undergoing major abdominal surgeries, emergency trauma operations, laparoscopic procedures, cancer resections, and day-care surgeries. She performs endotracheal intubation, rapid sequence induction, total intravenous anaesthesia delivery, inhalational gas maintenance, and pre-anaesthetic medical risk evaluation.

Regional Anaesthesia and Obstetric Analgesia

Dr Soumya evaluates patients requiring targeted pain relief for knee replacement, hip surgery, lower limb fractures, labour pain, and caesarean deliveries. Interventions include spinal anaesthesia, lumbar epidural analgesia, combined spinal-epidural blocks, local nerve infiltration, and continuous wound infusion catheters.

Cardiac Anaesthesia and Haemodynamic Monitoring

Dr Rao cares for cardiac patients suffering from coronary artery disease, heart valve narrowing, heart failure, irregular heartbeats, and severe surgical stress. Treatment includes invasive arterial line placement, central venous catheterisation, intraoperative haemodynamic monitoring, transoesophageal echocardiography assistance, and inotropic support titration.

Critical Care and Resuscitation

Dr Rao Soumya addresses acute emergencies including severe blood loss shock, septic shock, acute respiratory distress, multi-organ dysfunction, and sudden unconsciousness. She provides emergency cardiopulmonary resuscitation, mechanical ventilator support, blood component transfusion, acid-base correction, and critical post-operative stabilization.

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