As a multicategory referral center, UTMB cares for patients from the entire state of Texas. This large patient base provides a varied and diverse patient population.
Patients range from healthy to critically ill, some with rare medical conditions.
Experience in managing these difficult patients provides the skill, judgment, and confidence that will allow our residents to excel in any clinical arena. During their cardiac anesthesia rotation, our residents place and interpret invasive hemodynamic monitors, manage pharmacologic infusions, and place and interpret the transesophageal echocardiograph. Residents rotate through pediatric, cardiac, neurosurgical, obstetric, and regional anesthesia months in the operating room as well as the pain management clinic and intensive care units. Residents learn to perform a variety of regional techniques, including epidural, caudal, and spinal anesthesia, and peripheral nerve blocks, such as brachial plexus, lumbar plexus, sciatic-femoral, and ankle blocks. The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston .