Anesthesiology

Your Child's Care Matters - And the Experts on their Medical Team Make a Difference

At Covenant Children's we understand our young patients have unique physical, emotional, and developmental needs. To this end, we employ a number of Board-certified pediatric anesthesiologists.

Our goal is to make your child's hospital experience as easy and pain-free as possible and pediatric anesthesiologists assist in making this possible by sedating patients for surgical procedures, as well as providing pain management. It's often assumed anesthesiologists only provide care in the operating room but this isn't true with children. If your child requires a diagnostic imaging test, a bone marrow biopsy, lumbar puncture, etc. sedation and/or pain management can make these tests and procedures much more bearable.

What's the Difference in an Anesthesiologist and a Pediatric Anesthesiologist?

Board-certified pediatric anesthesiologists have completed 4 years of undergraduate education, followed by 4 years of medical school, and then do their internship and residency in pediatric anesthesia for an additional 4 years. Pediatric anesthesiologists may have also done a pediatrics residency or an additional Pediatric Anesthesiology Fellowship.

Many facilities will just use general anesthesiologists, who don't have more than superficial training in pediatrics and often don't have deep experience and ongoing exposure to pediatrics. At Covenant Children's we know what patients will benefit from receiving care from a pediatric anesthesiologist, and we ensure your child receives appropriate care.