Pediatric Anesthesia
If your child needs anesthesia, you can trust the pediatric anesthesia experts at Mount Sinai Kravis Children’s Hospital and the Mount Sinai Health System to provide the highest quality of care. We keep your child comfortable and safe before, during, and after a procedure, diagnostic study, or surgery. Our comprehensive, state-of-the-art, and evidence-based clinical care is available to infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. Our pediatric anesthesiologists perform approximately 3,000 pediatric cases a year. And our team brings together doctors, nurses and nurse anesthetists, and other clinicians and staff to deliver personalized, family-centered care. We tailor our care to the needs of your child and family, while maximizing safety and minimizing discomfort.
We provide services for all types of pediatric surgeries, including:
- Cardiac
- Dental
- General
- Gynecologic
- Neurologic
- Ophthalmologic
- Organ transplantation
- Orthopedic
- Otolaryngologic
- Reconstructive and plastic
- Urologic
In addition, we provide anesthesia services for non-operating room procedures and diagnostic studies. These include:
- Bone marrow aspirations and biopsies
- Lumbar punctures for chemotherapy
- Interventional radiology
- Radiation therapy
- Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computed tomography (CT), nuclear medicine, and PET
We also work with the pain management team to provide relief after procedures.
Pain Management Program
The Acute and Chronic Inpatient Pain Service is committed to providing the highest level of care for patients in the hospital. We work with patients who have acute pain after a procedure as well as those with chronic issues. The Anesthesiology Pain Service serves a large variety of pediatric pain patients. We help children with indwelling neuraxial and peripheral catheters and/or intravenous patient-controlled analgesia treatments. We have a physician, attending, fellow, resident, or intern available to provide these services 24/7. You can reach us at:
- Acute pain 616-592-0145
- Chronic pain 616-592-0084