Anesthesiology is the field of medicine concerned with pain relief during surgery.
Safe anesthesia involves very potent drugs and close patient monitoring. In Minnesota anesthesia is considered as the practice of medicine. In metropolitan Minnesota, as in most of the United States, an anesthesia care team usually delivers anesthesia. The anesthesia care team provides approximately ninety percent of all anesthetics in Minnesota. In some rural areas in Minnesota, because an anesthesiologist may not be available, the surgeon serves as the supervisor.