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The Department of Anesthesia provides anesthesia services to multiple clinical areas and services, including:
Clinical Areas & Services
- 36 main operating rooms
- 12 Ambulatory Surgery Center operating rooms
- 8 University of Iowa Stead Family Children's Hospital
- Satellite procedural areas
- Pediatric and Adult Cardiac Catheterization Lab
- Radiation Therapy
- Urology
- Pediatric Specialty Clinic
- Interventional Radiology
- Digestive Disease Center
- In Vitro Fertilization
- Anesthesia Presurgery Evaluation Clinic
- Chronic pain management
- Hyperbaric Medicine Facility
- Pediatric sedation services
- Regional anesthesiology and acute pain medicine
- Surgical and Neuroscience Intensive Care Unit (SNICU)
- Cardiovascular and Thoracic Intensive Care Unit (CVICU)
- Postoperative anesthesia care unit (PACU)
Statistics
- Over 20,900 Main Operating Room cases annually
- Over 8,600 Ambulatory Surgery cases annually
- Over 5,500 Surgical and Neurosciences Intensive Care Unit cases annually
- Over 7,000 patients seen in Anesthesia Presurgery Evaluation Clinic annually
- Over 80 faculty, over 65 CRNAs, fellows, residents, interns, and student registered nurse anesthetists provide clinical care