Dr. Giga Nadiradze
Anesthesia is the part of surgery patients understand least and worry about most. I started Anestheo to explain it in simple words: clear, calm and honest, with no jargon. I also wanted to give clinicians a practical place to work from when they explain anesthesia to patients.
About me
I am an anesthesiologist and pain specialist. Most of what I do happens where patients see least of it: the operating room while they are asleep, and afterwards, in the pain that follows. It is a strange kind of work. The better it goes, the less of it anyone remembers.
That gap is what pulled me toward explaining it. I began making videos for patients because the same questions came up before every operation, always in the last few minutes, when there was least time to answer them properly. Anesthesia explained in simple words was the whole brief, and it still is.
Clinical background
My work is anesthesiology and pain medicine: assessing people before surgery, looking after them during it, and treating the pain afterwards, when that is the difficult part. Those three vantage points are not separable in practice, and Anestheo is shaped by all of them.
The educational videos on this site are mine, and the reference material is written from the same practice. That is also why it is presented as reference rather than as instruction. Tools support judgement; they do not replace it.
Why I created Anestheo
Two problems, and they are the same problem seen from opposite sides.
Patients arrive without knowing what is about to happen to them. They have often searched for hours and found either nothing that applies to them or something frightening that does not. They meet their anesthesiologist for the first time shortly before surgery, which is the worst possible moment to begin learning what the options are, what to ask, how to prepare and what recovery will feel like.
Clinicians are explaining all of that under time pressure. The conversation that would settle a patient properly takes longer than the schedule allows, and it starts from zero every single time.
Anestheo exists to move that conversation earlier. Patients can read about the techniques commonly used for their operation, work through what to ask, and prepare before the day instead of on it. Clinicians get a pre-operative questionnaire they can review in advance and reference material in one place instead of six. Nobody is diagnosed and nothing is decided here. Your anesthesiologist decides that with you. What changes is how much you already understand when that conversation starts.
The most feared part of surgery, explained in clear, calm, honest language. No jargon.