Anesthesiology
What does this specialty do?
The anesthesiology service of the Fundación Valle del Lili It aims to ensure that patients are protected, pain-free and anxiety-free during surgical or diagnostic procedures, through the application of general anesthesia, sedation or local and/or regional anesthesia.
Anesthesia has made it possible to do what was previously impossible to do in order to heal people, and it seeks to achieve control of acute and chronic pain in patients.
Diseases it treats
Anesthesiology controls the diseases of patients who require surgical or diagnostic procedures, so that the complications associated with their diseases are as minimal as possible.
Anesthesiologists know how to diagnose and manage diseases such as high blood pressure, diabetes, cardiopulmonary, endocrinological and metabolic diseases that patients who require some type of general or regional anesthesia present.
Additionally, he is an expert in the management of acute and chronic pain in patients.
Procedures and treatments
- Pre-anesthetic assessments in person and via teleconsultation.
- Anesthetic care in operating rooms and outside of operating rooms (imaging, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, endoscopy, vascular intervention, burn unit, etc.).
- Procedures for managing acute and chronic pain.
- Analgesia during labor.
- Participates in the multidisciplinary group of “Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation” (ECMO).
- It promotes strategies to achieve the goal of being a pain-free hospital.
Subspecialties
- Pediatric anesthesiology.
- Cardiovascular anesthesiology and heart transplantation (adult and pediatric).
- Thoracic anesthesiology and lung transplantation.
- Pain Medicine and Palliative Care (Pain Clinic).
- Anesthesiology for solid organ transplants.
- Anesthesiology for highly complex procedures.
- Anesthesia for highly complex gynecological and obstetric procedures.
- High-complexity perioperative medicine.
Exam preparation
The anesthesiologist who performs the pre-anesthetic evaluation has the ability to determine what paraclinical (blood) and imaging (radiology, ultrasound, electrocardiogram, etc.) tests a patient requires in order to plan the appropriate anesthesia.
The decision depends on the patient's health status and the type of intervention to be performed.
Schedule an appointment
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Contact
Call us: (+57) 602 331 9090 ext. 7428
