For more than two decades, the Department of Anesthesiology at Rush University Medical Center, located in the heart of Chicago’s west side medical district, has been recognized for providing outstanding care in all aspects of anesthesiology and critical care medicine, in a highly sophisticated, comprehensive and high-quality tertiary-care setting.

Comprehensive services provided by the department include the following subspecialties of anesthesia:

• Pain medicine
• Cardio-thoracic anesthesia
• Critical care medicine
• Obstetric/gynecologic anesthesia
• Orthopedic anesthesia
• Liver transplant anesthesia
• Neuro-anesthesia
• Pediatric anesthesia
• Regional anesthesia
• Post-anesthesia care
• Ambulatory preoperative evaluation

Kenneth Tuman, MD, is chairperson of the Department of Anesthesiology. The department’s staff includes physicians trained in all areas of anesthesiology, including pain management, surgical critical care and obstetrical anesthesia. Special services are available for children. For profiles of physicians specializing in anesthesiology and related areas at Rush, see the link for “Find a Doctor,” at left.