Theda Clark Surgery Center

The Theda Clark Surgery Center always utilizes an MD anesthesiologist from the Neenah Association of Hospital Anesthesiologists. Some ambulatory surgery centers use an RN to administer anesthesia. Trained nurses in most critical care settings often administer anesthesia safely to patients, who are intubated and ventilated. However, some practitioners have been lulled into a false sense of security, allowing the drugs’ good safety profile to influence their beliefs that anesthesia is safer than it really is. In untrained hands, anesthesia can be dangerous, even deadly. Administration to a non-ventilated patient by a practitioner, who is not trained in the use of drugs that can cause deep sedation is not safe, even if the drug is given under the direct supervision of the physician performing the procedure. It is difficult for a physician to provide adequate supervision of anesthesia if he is focused on the procedure itself. The board certified plastic surgeons of FVPS work only with MD anesthesiologists at TCSC to insure that their patients receive the best possible care.