Welcome to the department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Services home page.

Welcome to the Department of Anesthesia home page. Our team of anesthesiologists, Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNA) and anesthesia technicians are committed to providing the safest, highest quality, state of the art anesthesia services. Patient safety and comfort are our primary goals.

Most patients view us as the people who put them to sleep for surgery, and then wake them up. It is clearly much more complex than that. We are the general practitioners or internists of the operating room. As experts in pharmacology and physiology, we are responsible for constantly monitoring your body�s response to surgery. We need to know how your individual surgical and medical problems will interact with the unique stresses of your surgery and the drugs we administer.

Our involvement with your care begins when you enter the preoperative area and continues until you are discharged from the Recovery Room. We are physically present throughout your surgical procedure. Although we don�t have the privilege of a long-term relationship with you, like your primary physician does, we are dedicated to making every minute of our interaction count. Your safety and comfort are our priority.

Please browse through our staff home pages in order to get to know us better and help answer any questions concerning your surgery.

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