Anesthesia Services

Jay Seymour, MSN, CRNA
Chief Nurse Anesthetist

The Anesthesia Department provides anesthesia care to patients of all ages (from neonate to geriatric) receiving diagnostic, therapeutic, invasive, or surgical procedures.

Patients are given a pre-anesthesia evaluation by the anesthesia provider. After such an assessment, the anesthesia plan of care is developed using patients’ medical history and the risk associated to assign an ASA classification and obtain informed consent before the patient receives anesthesia. The standards of anesthesia care apply when patients receive, in any setting, by any route, for any purpose, an anesthetic with or without analgesia.

Epidural anesthesia is used in the Labor and Delivery Unit for laboring patients. Monitored anesthesia care can be used in Radiology, ER, ICU, GI Lab, and PACU to assist in diagnostic and therapeutic procedures.

The following services are offered at Abbeville General:

  • Acute Pain Management/Post-Op Pain Control
    • Upper Extremity
      • Axillary Nerve Block
      • Infraclavicular
      • Interscalene Nerve Block
      • Supra Clavicular Block
      • Suprascapular
    • Abdominal
      • ESP Block
      • Tap nerve block
    • Lower Extremity
      • Adductor Canal Block
      • Ankle Nerve Block
      • Femoral Nerve Block
      • Popliteal Nerve Block
      • Sciatic Nerve Block

The Anesthesia Department is located in the Surgery Suite on the first floor.

The Department is staffed with an anesthesiologist, CRNA’s and an anesthesia aide. The Anesthesia Department provides 24-hour coverage per day, 7 days a week.