The "Anaesthesia Given" Field Is Where Competency Gets Proven
Every anaesthesia residency program in India tracks the same thing: what type of anaesthesia did you administer, on which case, under what surgical context. The MCI and NBE competency frameworks require documented case exposure across modalities — general, spinal, epidural, CSE, regional blocks, MAC — and across specialties. At the end of your three years, the logbook is the document that either demonstrates that exposure or leaves you scrambling to fill gaps you didn't know existed.
The Anaesthesia given field in this template is free text, which is right. The range of what needs to be recorded is too wide for a dropdown: "Spinal with 0.5% hyperbaric bupivacaine 2.5mL, midazolam premedication, supplemental O2" doesn't fit into a list option. What matters is that the field exists on every case record and that you fill it immediately post-procedure, while the induction sequence is still fresh.
The OT Posting Field Drives Your Case Mix Audit
OT posted — Orthopaedics, Urology, Obs & Gynae, General Surgery, ENT — is the field that makes your accumulated logbook auditable against the case exposure requirements set by your institution and the examining body.
Spinal anaesthesia dominates orthopaedic lists. Urology gives you exposure to cystoscopic cases under MAC and spinal for TURP. Obs & Gynae is where you accumulate your GA for emergency LSCS, your epidurals for labour analgesia, your CSE for elective LSCS. General surgery is the specialty that pushes case complexity — laparotomies, laparoscopic procedures, bowel resections, the cases where arterial lines and epidural catheters and rapid infusers are all running simultaneously. ENT covers the airway challenges: shared airway, laser cases, microlaryngoscopy where the tube diameter and positioning tolerances are tight in ways general surgery almost never is.
After six months of posting data, you can filter this field and immediately see where you're underdeveloped. If your Obs & Gynae count is low and your NBE mandatory requirements include fifty obstetric cases, that's a rotation request you need to make now, not three months before the exam. The No. of cases field on each daily record, combined with the OT posted field, gives you a running total per specialty when aggregated.
What the Daily Record Looks Like Under Pressure
You finish a twelve-hour orthopaedic list — four cases: bilateral knee replacement under spinal, a hemiarthroplasty under GA with LMA, a plate fixation under brachial plexus block, and a wound debridement under ketamine sedation. You enter the date. OT posted: Orthopaedics. No. of cases: 4. Then Case 1 through Case 4.
Each case block takes less than two minutes to complete: patient name (last name or initials for confidentiality), IP number for hospital record traceability, diagnosis and procedure (right TKR, primary), anaesthesia given (spinal with 0.5% heavy marcaine 2.8mL, intraoperative dexmedetomidine infusion), and remarks (tourniquet time 78 mins, no haemodynamic instability, patient extubated in OT).
That last field — Remarks — is where you put the things that will matter when you're studying for the DNB theory papers at midnight. The anaesthetic nuance, the intraoperative event, the attending consultant's technique preference that deviated from standard. After three hundred cases, the Remarks column is a clinical education document in itself.
The Academic events field captures the other half of a residency day: the journal club presentation on sugammadex dosing in morbid obesity, the simulation session, the ACLS refresher. These events don't generate case exposure, but they're part of the daily record and they demonstrate that your training included structured learning alongside clinical volume. Some examinations ask about this.