Anesthesiologists keep patients comfortable and safe during surgery and complex non-surgical procedures using a range of specialized medicines and equipment.

A day in the life of a Children's anesthesiologist can look very different from one day to the next. One day, they may spend 15 hours helping one patient safely through a complex operation. The next day, the same doctor might care for 20 patients undergoing short procedures.

Children have different health care needs than adults. To ensure your child’s safety, it’s important his or her anesthesiologist has experience sedating children. Sedatives are powerful medicines, and having a specialized, trained anesthesiologist at the bedside makes it safer for your child.

Our pediatric anesthesiologists will sedate up to 1,400 children a year. To maintain performance at the highest level, it's important for a pediatric anesthesiologist to have experience in a setting like Children's Wisconsin that provides state-of-the-art care to a range of pediatric patients.