Department of Anesthesiology
The members of the Department of Anesthesiology at The University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine in Knoxville work together for a single purpose: to provide the best possible perioperative care for our patients. Our anesthesia care teams provide services for approximately 45,000 procedures in our operating rooms and satellite anesthetizing locations such as the obstetrical suites, the gastroenterology outpatient center, radiology department, cardiovascular laboratory and the University of Tennessee Ambulatory Surgical Center.
In addition to providing the highest standard of anesthetic care for our patients, the Department of Anesthesiology is committed to the education of resident physicians, medical students and nurse anesthetists in the specialty of anesthesiology. Both the anesthesiology residency and the concentration on nurse anesthesia received the highest possible accreditation cycles at the time of their last reviews. We appreciate your interest in our website and encourage you to explore it at your leisure. Please contact us if you have any questions.
Sincerely,
Jerry L. Epps, MD
Chairman
Chairman's Forum
Regional versus General Anesthesia: Does it really make a difference? Neuman et al (Anesthesiology. 2012;117(1):72-92) recently reported that regional anesthesia is associated with improved outcomes in hip fracture patients compared with general anesthesia. In a review of more than 18,000 patients having surgery for hip fracture in New York in 2007 and 2008, use of regional anesthesia was associated with a 25–29% reduction in major pulmonary complications and death. JLE
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For additional information on our residency program:
Anesthesiology Residency Brochure
