Pediatric Anesthesia and Sedation Services

Pediatric anesthesia

Your child’s anesthesia care team will carefully consider a variety of techniques to reduce anxiety before surgery and during transport to the operating room. Once in the OR, pediatric anesthesiologists work closely with pediatric surgeons to ensure children are sleeping safely throughout their procedure.

Our pediatric anesthesiologist are available throughout the operation, and your child is continually monitored to insure that they have no pain. They provide care at:

• Lehigh Valley Reilly Children’s Hospital
• J.B. and Kathleen Reilly Children’s Surgery Center

Pediatric sedation

Sometimes sedating your child is necessary to make it less stressful for them and easier for a pediatric specialist to perform a procedure or get an imaging scan. Our pediatric anesthesiologists help kids relax and feel sleepy in a variety of outpatient settings, including:

• Children’s ER
• Radiology
• Regional Burn Center
• Radiation therapy

Pediatric pain management

If your child needs pain control following surgery or a procedure, our pediatric anesthesiologists may use intravenous medications and other anesthetic techniques like:

• Oral pain-relieving medicines
• Injections of a local anesthetic to the surgery site
• Pain-blocking treatments, like nerve blocks, that prevent pain signals between the brain and a specific region of the body

Our goal is to safely relieve your child’s pain before, during and after a procedure or surgery.