The Department of Anesthesiology at City of Hope® Cancer Center Duarte provides a full spectrum of perioperative services aimed at delivering compassionate, evidence-based high-quality patient care. Our anesthesiologists serve as key members of a patient’s surgical team. They play a vital role in and out of the operating room, helping to make decisions to protect and regulate a patient’s critical life functions (consciousness, breathing, heart rate, respiration and blood pressure) before, during and after surgical procedures.
Why Choose City of Hope
The role of anesthesia in cancer treatment at City of Hope is evolving to care for the whole patient — from pre-anesthesia testing to surgery and interventional pain medicine.
Our care begins in the Pre-anesthesia Testing Clinic (PATC), where patients are seen and have their medical conditions optimized prior to surgery.
The goal of our PATC is to maximize patient safety while minimizing delay to surgical therapy. Once in the operating room, our patients receive state-of-the-art care from our team of compassionate and experienced anesthesiologists utilizing the most current techniques and technologies. Our team has extensive experience in providing anesthesia for patients undergoing minimally invasive and robotically assisted procedures.
The Department of Anesthesiology at City of Hope also includes specialists in pain medicine to help improve the quality of life of patients dealing with chronic pain. In addition, our team actively pursues innovative patient-centered research aimed at identifying the most advanced anesthetic techniques for surgical oncology patients.
Learn more about anesthesia and the Pre-anesthesia Testing Clinic at City of Hope.
Interventional Pain Management
Chronic pain is the leading cause of disability in the United States and more than half of patients in chronic pain report significant anxiety, depression, insomnia and dissatisfaction with their quality of life.
The Interventional Pain Program at City of Hope, under the Department of Anesthesiology, provides comprehensive pain management for both cancer and non-cancer related pain. Our goal is to properly diagnose and treat chronic pain and overall suffering with a multidisciplinary approach. This entails a responsible prescribing of pain medications, safe practice of procedures and help for the patient coping with the impact that chronic pain has had on his or her life and relationships.
Patients with pain are seen in the outpatient clinic, where a detailed pain history and examination are used to tailor a regimen focused on each patient’s specific needs and goals.
Interventions such as minimally invasive nerve blocks, joint injections, radiofrequency ablation of nerves, intrathecal pain pumps or neurostimulators are used in conjunction with medications, psychotherapy, physical rehabilitation and even hypnosis to reduce pain and improve quality of life for each patient.
Anesthesiology Team
Our team consists of experienced anesthesiologists certified by the American Board of Anesthesiology. All of our anesthesiologists are Doctors of Medicine who have completed four years of medical school and an additional four years of residency training in anesthesiology. We have vast experience and exposure to oncologic anesthesia, which ensures that you are provided with the best anesthetic care possible.