Anesthesiology

Anesthesiology is the practice of medicine dedicated to the relief of pain and total care of the surgical patient before, during and after surgery. Today’s anesthesia practice has also evolved into the treatment of chronic and cancer-related pain, as well as pain experienced during childbirth. Metropolitan Anesthesia’s consultants routinely utilize two common techniques – general and regional.

Techniques

General anesthesia
During general anesthesia, patients are eased into a state of unconsciousness through the administration of anesthetic agents to achieve an absence of pain sensation over the entire body. General anesthesia can be administered in a variety of ways including by inhalation, intravenously and intramuscularly.

Regional anesthesia
Regional anesthesia produces a state of insensibility at a particular region of the body by interrupting sensory nerve conductivity. The most common regional anesthetic techniques include spinal, epidural and peripheral.

Sedation
Sedation is commonly used to reduce a patient’s anxiety and relieve pain for all types of medical and surgical procedures.

Types of surgery

Metropolitan Anesthesia’s physicians provide anesthetic care for all types of surgery and all subspecialties.