Anesthesiology provides complete preoperative evaluation to assess the patient prior to scheduled operative procedures and to facilitate the patient's entry into the system; provides facilities and anesthesiological patient care during and immediately following all surgical procedures; provides patient care when anesthesia is required for operative and non-operative procedures outside the operating rooms; provides postoperative pain management services on a management as well as a consultative basis; and provides a continuum of intensive care management in the postoperative period.
The department also provides patient care for the management of chronic pain in the ambulatory setting and on a consultative basis throughout the Medical Center (Pain Management).
Patient Care/Patient Information Prior to Surgery:
For questions about time of scheduled surgical procedures, where to go on the day of surgery and preoperative instructions
Pain Management
General Pain Information (310) 794-1841 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Dr. Ferrante/Machelle (310) 319-2241 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Regarding Special Requests or Concerns
If you have special requests or concerns regarding your anesthesia, or would like to request a specific anesthesiology team, we need to know as far in advance as possible. Options for communicating these issues to our schedulers include:
Tell the personnel in your surgeon's office.
Tell the staff in the Preoperative Evaluation Clinic.
Contact the Department of Anesthesiology Information number (310) 825-6761, hours: 7:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.)
For emergencies call the page operator to contact the on-call anesthesiologist.
Page Operator: (310) 825-6301 / (310) 267-0529
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