The Division of Pediatric Anesthesia provides comprehensive anesthesia care for the diverse pediatric patients treated at the nationally recognized American Family Children’s Hospital.
All of our anesthesiologists are dedicated to providing safe, quality care for our patients, and we have a robust quality improvement program that strives to improve the management of anesthetic care for all children.
Our patients range from healthy toddlers and teens to critically ill premature infants and children staying in our neonatal and pediatric intensive care units. We work closely with our pediatric surgical and procedural colleagues from many pediatric specialties including cardiac surgery, general surgery, neurosurgery, otolaryngology, orthopedics, urology, plastic surgery, ophthalmology, transplant surgery, interventional cardiology, and interventional radiology.
To meet our patients varied needs our division also includes subspecialty-trained pediatric anesthesiologists in pediatric cardiac anesthesia and complex pediatric pain management.
Our growing comprehensive pediatric pain program provides perioperative consultative services in advanced pain management for our surgical and pediatric colleagues. We also treat patients with both acute and chronic pain on our inpatient consult service. In addition to providing excellent clinical care, our pediatric anesthesiologists extend our impact through teaching fellows, residents, and medical students, and by participating in global health endeavors.
Division Highlight
Dr. Ben Walker focuses on pediatric acute pain and regional anesthesia, including advanced epidural and perineural catheter placements. He has performed extensive research on the safety and efficacy of performing regional anesthesia techniques in children and has taught these techniques at a national level. At American Family Children’s Hospital, the pediatric acute pain team focuses on designing multimodal pain management plans that minimize opioid exposure to children.
