About the Department of Anesthesia
The Department of Anesthesia at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center contains three divisions: anesthesia, pain management and neurobiology.
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Anesthesia
Anesthesia provides services for all surgical subspecialties, cardiology, pulmonology, gastroenterology and interventional radiology in 28 operating rooms at our Main Campus as well as three operating rooms at Cincinnati Children's Mason Campus. We are building eight new operating rooms 15 miles north of Cincinnati, at Cincinnati Children's Liberty Campus, opening in August 2008.
Pain Management
Pain Management offers services for acute pain management, chronic pain management (outpatient clinic), procedure management and palliative care. Procedure management services are conducted in the Hematology-Oncology clinic, Wound Care Center and the Barrett Cancer Center.
Neurotoxicity
Neurobiology provides neurophysiological monitoring, anesthesia and sedation services for diagnostic imaging such as MRI, CT, PET and nuclear medicine, as well as neuroscience research to study neurotoxicity of anesthetics on the developing brain, neuroprotection during hypoxia-ischemia, and neuroplasticity following seizures, pain and ischemia.
Our department employs 39 pediatric anesthesiologists, two PhD neuroscientists, 25 CRNAs, nine pediatric anesthesia fellows, 17 pediatric nurse practitioners, five research study coordinators, 12 anesthesia technicians and seven laboratory research specialists.
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Our anesthesiology faculty at Cincinnati Children's is diverse, having completed fellowships in Boston, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Washington DC, Chicago, Chapel Hill, Rochester (Minnesota), Los Angeles, Melbourne (Australia), the Cleveland Clinic, Seattle and Cincinnati.
Pediatric Pain Management
We have an active acute and chronic pain service, procedure management service and palliative care service. Our acute Pediatric Pain Service cares for over 2,000 patients annually, providing epidural, regional nerve block and intravenous analgesia for postoperative pain, as well as managing pain from other causes.
The procedure management service administers 1,000 anesthetics annually to patients with chronic conditions requiring repeated painful procedures. The palliative care service offers compassionate care to approximately 100 children each year with progressive, debilitating and non-curable diseases.
Under the direction of a board-certified Pediatric Pain Management specialist, the pediatric Pain Management Clinic evaluates and treats children with chronic and acute pain. There is an opportunity to obtain subspecialty boards in pain management with a focus on pediatric pain and palliative care.
Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesiology
Our pediatric cardiac anesthesiology group provides service for 479 open heart operations, 280 cardiac catheterizations and over 125 other procedures each year. Children receive care in two cardiac surgery operating suites, one cardiac hybrid laboratory and an electrophysiology laboratory. The hybrid laboratory permits interventional cardiology and surgical procedures to be performed in one location.
Fetal Surgery Anesthesia Group
Our fetal surgery anesthesia group administers general and epidural anesthesia for over 100 fetal surgery cases each year. These cases include minimally invasive surgery, EXIT procedures and major open fetal surgery cases.
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The Department of Anesthesia uses the GE Centricity information system in the pre-operative clinic, operating suite and post-anesthesia care unit. Computers exist in the pre-operative exam rooms, each operating room and each PACU bay to record, store, and print the pre-anesthetic evaluation and the intraoperative anesthesia record.
Centricity permits the anesthesia provider to multi-task in the OR, working on the anesthesia record, looking up the pre-op information for the next case, viewing the PACU status of the last case, writing orders for any case, completing the CQI of all the day's cases and searching the web to prepare for any case. The anesthesia record is viewed "live" or retrieved online from our conference room for our problem-based learning conferences.
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The Department of Anesthesia has an active research program in the Institute of Pediatric Anesthesia. Opportunities exist to conduct clinical trials, health services and neurobiology research with faculty in the department and the Institute.
Support personnel include two PhD neuroscientists, seven laboratory research assistants for neurobiology studies, one research nurse study coordinator, three assistants for clinical trial studies, two University of Cincinnati graduate students and one information systems analyst for health services research studies.
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