Anesthesia & Perioperative Medicine

Approximately 20,000 anesthetics are administered each year for a wide variety of surgical procedures.  Our physicians:

• Evaluate and optimize a patients’ medical conditions prior to anesthesia or sedation for a procedure
• Prescribee and carry out an anesthetic plan during their procedure, and
• Ensure adequate pain relief and resolution of all anesthetic effects after the procedure is complete. 

Anesthesia Clinics

• Pain Management
• Pre-operative Clinic

Anesthesia Sub-specialties

In order to support the complex, state of the art surgical and imaging procedures performed at MUSC, our faculty have expertise in several sub-specialties, including:

• Acute Pain
• Ambulatory Anesthesia
• Cardiothoracic Anesthesia
• General/Vascular Anesthesia
• Gynecologic and Genitourinary Anesthesia
• Neuroanesthesia
  (Neurosurgical and interventional neuroradiologic)
• Non O.R. Anesthesia
• Obstetrical Anesthesia
• Orthopaedic/Regional Anesthesia
• Otolaryngology
• Pediatric Anesthesia
• Pediatric Heart Team
• Transplant Anesthesia