Anesthesiology
Anesthesiologist
About this specialty
Anesthesiology is the medical specialty that focuses on providing safe anesthesia and pain control before, during and after surgery or other procedures.
What they do: Anesthesiologists assess a patient's health, choose the appropriate type and dose of anesthesia, monitor vital signs closely and manage pain and recovery after the procedure.
Common conditions treated
- pain during surgery or procedures
- severe pain after surgery
- labor pain in childbirth
- chronic pain needing nerve blocks
- high-risk medical conditions requiring careful anesthesia planning
- breathing or blood pressure problems related to anesthesia
When to visit
- before planned surgery or endoscopy where anesthesia or sedation will be used
- if you have heart
- lung
- kidney or other serious illness and need advice about anesthesia risk
- when you are worried about pain control during or after an operation
- if you had previous complications with anesthesia and need review
- for procedures such as epidural or spinal injection for delivery or pain relief
Treatment methods
- preoperative evaluation and risk assessment
- general anesthesia to make you fully unconscious
- regional anesthesia such as spinal
- epidural or nerve blocks
- sedation for minor procedures and tests
- continuous monitoring of heart
- blood pressure and breathing
- postoperative pain management with medicines
- injections or infusions
Questions worth asking
Take these to your appointment.
- 1Which type of anesthesia is safest for me considering my health problems?
- 2What are the possible risks and side effects of this anesthesia?
- 3How should I prepare before surgery and anesthesia, including medicines and fasting?
- 4How will my pain be controlled during and after the operation?
- 5What happened during my previous anesthesia reaction and how can we prevent it again?
Doctors in Anesthesiologist
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