Dr. Shafi is an anesthesiologist at Lotus Multispecialty Hospital, Bangalore. His responsibilities for a patient undergoing surgery start at the point of making a pre-anesthetic evaluation and creating an anesthesia plan for the operation, and he also holds the responsibility for the medical management of the patient throughout the procedure. Throughout a procedure, he monitors a patients vitals like heart rate and rhythm, breathing, blood pressure, body temperature, and fluid balance. Dr. Shafi also administers anesthesia for various aspects of pain medicine - from headaches, through chest, abdominal and pelvic pain, to burns, diabetes and herpes pain.