Anesthesiology: Providing comfort during your care

Anesthesiologists, clinical anesthetists and technicians work as a team during surgical and diagnostic procedures in the operating room suite and other UW Health locations.

Sedation, regional anesthesia, analgesia and general anesthesia are used to provide patients with a satisfying experience during procedures performed by surgeons and other physicians. State-of-the-art anesthesia and monitoring devices provide the safest experience possible.

Services

• Preoperative assessment and testing

• Sedation, regional anesthesia, analgesia and general anesthesia

• Invasive hemodynamic monitoring

• Intraoperative transesophageal echocardiographic monitoring

• Intraoperative somatosensory evoked potential neurologic monitoring

• Elective and emergency airway management

• Perioperative peripheral and neuraxial nerve blocks for pain management

• Perioperative vascular access

• Pain management