When your child needs pain medicine to sleep during heart surgery, you can trust in our skilled anesthesiologists.
At the Heart Institute at Children’s, our anesthesiologists have vast knowledge of caring for children in the OR and beyond.
More Experience Means Less Risk
Our anesthesia doctors are part of every heart surgery team.
They take an active role in watching over your child during surgery to prevent complications.
Most have twenty or more years of practice, including with high-risk cases. This means few issues are likely to arise that they haven't ably dealt with before.
New Ways to Manage a Child's Pain
They also have training in advanced techniques like regional anesthesia.
These techniques let them manage pain with lower doses of narcotics to help your child:
- Wake from surgery faster.
- Breathe on his or her own sooner.
- Feel more comfortable and social earlier in recovery.
To learn more, contact the Heart Institute at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh at 412-692-5540.
