The department provides anesthesia and perioperative medical services are for elective and emergency for neurosurgery.

This subspecialty combines the rapidly advancing basic and clinical neuroscience knowledge with the knowledge of anaesthesia to improve the outcomes of neurological patients. It also provides anesthesia and resuscitation services for modified electroconvulsive therapy and for imaging services and interventional neuroradiology.

Besides dealing with critical illness of the nervous system, neurointensivists also treat the medical complications that may occur in their patients, including those of the heart, lung, kidneys, or any other body system. The neurointensivists collaborate with  neurosurgeons, neurologists, radiologists, critical care nurses, respiratory therapists, rehabilitation therapists, and social workers who all work together in order to provide coordinated care for the critically ill neurologic patient