Anesthesiology
What is Anesthesia?
Anesthesiologists (MD) and Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNA) help ensure the safety of patients undergoing surgery. They provide care for the patient to prevent the pain and distress they would otherwise experience. This may involve general anesthesia (“putting the patient to sleep”), sedation (intravenous medications to make the patient calm and/or unaware) or regional anesthesia (injections of local anesthetic near nerves to “numb up” the part of the body being operated on (i.e. nerve blocks or spinal/epidural injections)).
Before the procedure, your anesthesia provider will talk with you and establish an anesthetic plan in coordination with your surgeon. At this time, your anesthesia team will also ensure you are ready for the operation. The first priority is getting the patient safely and comfortably through the procedure. In addition to getting through the operation safely, your provider tries to reduce post-operative pain after the operation. This may involve intravenous pain medications and/or nerve blocks.
The anesthesia team runs the recovery room for specialized care immediately after surgery and determines when the patient is ready to go home.
What training is involved?
An anesthesiologist is a doctor (MD or DO) who practices anesthesia. Anesthesiologists are physicians specializing in perioperative care, developing anesthetic plans, and the administration of anesthetics. He or she has finished college, then medical school (four years), then an internship (one year) followed by a residency in anesthesia (three years). Some anesthesiologists pursue additional years of training (a fellowship). A Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist has finished their bachelors in nursing, (RN), and completed two additional years in the specialty of anesthesia.
What is high quality anesthesia?
High quality anesthesia means that each anesthesia provider is meticulously screened for many attributes of which are of the utmost importance. Bayshore Anesthesia only provides the best of the best a board certified, highly skilled and compassionate anesthesia team.