Services
Pre - Anesthesia Consultation
Either on the day of surgery or prior to surgery if patients have complicated medical conditions or would feel better about discussing their anesthetic care with an anesthesiologist prior to the day of surgery.
Outpatient General Anesthesia
This is a state of unconsciousness safely rendered by drugs that are geared toward rapid recovery to wakefulness. Close attention is given to careful monitoring of all bodily functions and toward the minimization of pain and other side effects such as nausea.
Regional Anesthesia
This technique involves the placement of local anesthetics around nerves that control awareness of one part of the body, rendering it insensitive. It is usually accomplished under ultrasound guidance and with the patient mildly sedated. Few patients remember the placement of such blocks. This is a very effective means of performing anesthesia for many outpatient surgeries and allows the patient to be sedated or awake during surgery with minimal time to recovery and long-lasting pain control post surgery.
Peri-Neural Catheters
If your surgery is deemed by your surgeon to involve significant post operative pain, you both may decide upon this option. It involves the placement of a very small catheter tubing adjacent to the nerves innervating the shoulder, foot or other body areas under ultrasound guidance. You will then be sent home after surgery with a pump that feeds local anesthetic to this area, dramatically reducing postoperative pain for as long as 5 days after surgery.
