The Department of Anesthesiology at EMMC provides complete anesthesia services, including general, spinal, regional, MAC and acute interventional pain management.
Anesthesia services are available to inpatients and outpatients regardless of age, sex, race or financial class on an emergent, urgent and elective basis, Monday through Friday. The Department of Anesthesia provides on-call coverage after hours and on weekends and holidays. Anesthesia Back-up call services are available within 20 minutes after anesthesia is determined necessary for all emergency and obstetric cases.
Skill Levels - Qualifications of Personnel:
The Department of Anesthesiology is directed by a Board-Certified Fellowship trained Anesthesiologist and staffed by Board Certified and Board Eligible Anesthesiologists and Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists. For more information, visit the EMMC Physician Finder or visit our Anesthesiology team list.
Standards of Practice:
Policies and procedures are formulated by using information and data obtained from the American Society of Anesthesiologists, the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists and JCAHO, as well as information submitted by anesthesiologists and CRNAs to allow for the formulation of policies appropriate to the resources and needs of this facility. All policies are reviewed and approved by the Chief of Anesthesiology and are subject to the Chief Medical Officer’s approval.
Services:
EMMC’s Anesthesiologists perform a variety of anesthesia services for the following types of surgical specialties:
- Bariatric
- Cardiac, including invasive cardiology procedures involving AICDs and pacemaker insertions, TEEs and cardioversions, EP studies
- Ears, nose, throat
- General
- Laser
- Neurosurgical, including complex neurovascular and pediatric neurosurgical conditions
- Obstetrics
- Ophthalmology
- Orthopedic, including major spinal procedures
- Pediatric, including neonatal surgery
- Plastics, including microsurgical plastic surgery
- Thoracic
- Urologic
- Vascular
- Robotically-assisted laporoscopic gastric by-pass, prostectomy, cholecystectomy and others
Anesthesia Department services include:
- Administration of anesthesia in all subspecialties
- Preoperative medical evaluations
- Perioperative pain management
- Intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography
- Critical-care medicine
- Management of acute and chronic pain
- Diagnosis of acute and chronic pain syndromes
- Medical management of painful conditions
- Kyphoplasty
- Injections and nerve blocks
- Spinal-cord stimulation
- Spinal-infusion systems
- Coordination of comprehensive pain management services
- Nursing and case management
- Obstetrical analgesia and anesthesia
Learn more about Anesthesiology
The Department of Anesthesiology understands you may have questions when coming to EMMC. To answer questions you may have concerning anesthesiology, visit the American Society of Anesthesiologists’ (ASA) patient education Web site. The ASA is an educational, research and scientific association of physicians organized to raise and maintain the standards of the medical practice of anesthesiology and improve the care of the patient.