Anesthesia

Anesthesiologists at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital provide a full range of services from sedation to general anesthesia for all infants, children and adult patients. This includes patients with cardiac disease, end-stage kidney and liver disorders, and all others who are undergoing diagnostic, surgical, and/or percutaneous interventional procedures. Services are provided throughout Lucile Packard Children's Hospital and in its Ford Family Surgery Center.

Anesthesiologists in the Division of Obstetric Anesthesia offer expertise in obstetric anesthesia, and are involved in the management of high-risk pregnancies and are available for pre-delivery consultation.

Our cardiac anesthesiology team provides anesthesia for patients undergoing the full range of cardiac procedures, from imaging studies that doctors use to diagnose disease, to open-heart surgery.

Anesthesiologists are available 24 hours/day for consultations. For more information please visit our Pediatric Anesthesia and Pain Management Web site.