Inpatient/Outpatient Anesthesia Services
GPC presently provides all inpatient anesthesia at Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta, GA and Fayette Community Hospital in Peachtree City, GA. In addition, we provide outpatient anesthesia services for Northside Sandy Springs Surgery Center, Peachtree Orthopaedic Clinic, Southern Orthopaedic Surgery Center at Fayette and Georgia Surgical Center on Peachtree.

The inpatient/ outpatient services provided include :

1. Inpatient and Outpatient Anesthesia for General Surgery, Plastic Surgery,Gynecological Surgery, and Orthopedics.
2. Anesthesia for Renal Transplantation
3. Anesthesia for Neurological Surgery
4. Anesthesia for Pulmonary Surgery
5. Anesthesia for Vascular Surgery
6. Anesthesia for Liver Transplantation
7. Cardiovascular Anesthesia.
8. Pediatric Anesthesia including MRI studies and radiation therapy
9. Anesthesia for Complex Radiological Procedures including interventional procedures such as the TIPS procedure for transhepatic shunting in cirrhosis. We also provide consultation to the emergency room, intensive care unit and to the gastrointestinal endoscopy suite.

Preoperative Anesthetic Consultations
We will provide individualized preoperative consultations for those patients who have unique medical problems. Your surgeon or primary care physician can arrange this by calling the preoperative testing area at either Piedmont Hospital or Fayette Community Hospital.

Obstetrical Anesthesia Services
Our anesthesiologists provide 24-hour day/ 7-day week coverage for all obstetric services including epidural analgesia. We work closely with your obstetrician, midwife and obstetric nurse to make sure that you have the safest and most pleasant experience possible. We meet with all the childbirth classes to discuss issues related to anesthesia. If you have any specific questions, ask your obstetrician or midwife to give us a call or you can email us at paa@mindspring.com.

Transesophageal Echocardiography Service
This service is offered by our Division of Cardiac Anesthesiology on a consultative basis in conjunction with the Department of Cardiology. We have several physicians who are trained and certified in the placement of transesophageal echocardiographic probes and interpretation of transesophageal echocardiographic data. Dr. Gary Stolovitz is the division head. His group is available for consultation by contacting the cardiovascular anesthesiologist on call.

Here is a link to an informative site with patient information available on echocardiography, www.asecho.org.

Acute Pain Service
This is a service we provide on a consultation basis at Piedmont Hospital and Fayette Community Hospital. Our service is staffed by several nurses who are well versed in the management of acute pain problems. They are in constant communication with an anesthesiologist who directs all care on the service. The nurses are available for consultation during the day hours by notifying your floor nurse.  One of our nurses will be more than happy to come to your room to address any question you might have. This service presently offers a full range of post operative pain relief options including intravenous PCA, epidural PCA and regional anesthetic pain blocks.

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