he division of Pediatric Anesthesia consists of fifteen physicians who both have special interest in and enjoy working with infants, children and teenagers. These physicians customize each and every anesthetic to the patient's age, size and medical condition.

Procedures may allow for: oral pre-medication to calm a child prior to entering the operating room, parental presence during induction of anesthesia, and parental presence in the recovery room. Every attempt is made to contact a parent the evening prior to surgery to discuss these issues. This allows for a relaxed conversation between the parent and anesthesiologist and subsequently gives the parents the opportunity to prepare their child if they so desire.

We provide anesthesia for all types of operative procedures including:

• general pediatric surgery
• urologic
• ear, nose and throat
• orthopedic
• neurosurgical
• plastics
• burns

In addition, we provide sedation for: diagnostic and therapeutic procedures including computerized tomography scans (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), colonoscopy, esophagoduodenoscopy (EGD), etc. These services are provided for both pediatric inpatients and outpatients. A subset of the division of Pediatric Anesthesia has particular interest in providing care for premature infants and newborns with need for surgical procedures.

We maintain excellent relationships with our surgeons, referring pediatricians and pediatric sub specialists, pediatric intensive care specialists and neonatal intensive care specialists. This teamwork allows us to coordinate care plans with these other services to ensure paramount preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative care.