It has 11 clinical departments and more than 15
The Institute takes a leadership stand in promoting and encouraging subspecialty in anesthesiology.
subspecialized sections. Clinical activities include providing anesthesia, critical care, pain management to the Cleveland Clinic main campus and six hospitals, three outpatient surgical centers in the Cleveland Clinic Health System and 11 Pain Management Centers. These clinical activities exceed 160,000 anesthesia procedures a year, more than 44,000 critical care days, and at Cleveland Clinic Pain Management Centers, more than 106,000 patient visits and 35,000 procedures.
- The Institute has one of the largest residency training programs in the country and accepts about 30 new residents annually. Cleveland Clinic has subspecialized anesthesiology fellowships in cardiac, vascular, transplant, obstetrics, pain, pediatrics, neuroanesthesiology, critical care and outpatient and advanced anesthesiology training.
- The Cleveland Clinic Outcomes Research Department is the most productive in the world and is the only outcomes research program housed entirely within an anesthesia division.
- The Center for Anesthesiology Education organizes and coordinates about six postgraduate courses annually and one cooperative meeting in China in alternate years.
- The Center for Anesthesia Education courses are usually rated in the top three of all courses offered at Cleveland Clinic.
- The Center for Anesthesia Education sponsors or co-sponsors a four-week, mandatory education block in the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine advanced years in perioperative medicine (pre-operative, operative, pain therapy and critical care).
- The Center for Anesthesiology Research has more than 7,500 square feet of laboratory space dedicated for basic research. Specialized researchers in conjunction with research fellows work in the specialties of outcomes research, cardiovascular research, physiology and pain management research. This activity results in the yearly presentation of more than 150 abstracts nationally, 100 publications and some well-known anesthesia and lay books.
- Largest cardiac service in the world and rated #1 by U.S.News & World Reports for 13 straight years.
- The Institute has more use of transesophageal echo for cardiac procedures to guide minimally invasive (percutaneous) valve replacement procedures in the world.
- Members of the Institute are active both nationally and internationally, participating in founding and running several societies. They are represented on more than 20 American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) committees and have leadership positions in numerous anesthesia sub-specialty societies.
- The Institute jointly maintains a School of Nurse Anesthesia which graduates about 12 certified registered nurse anesthetists (CRNA)s annually.
- The Institute maintains jointly a school of respiratory therapy and provides respiratory therapy for more than 60,000 patient treatments each year.
- The section of Clinical Engineering and Information Services, not only is in charge of selection and buying all capital equipment ($1.5 million/year) it also maintains all the Institute equipment.
- The research activity in this section and in the Institute on has resulted in the issuance of more than 20 U.S. patents. Other developments include; closed loop systems for the automated control of blood pressure and blood glucose levels, a unique patient transport system and two drugs in or completing clinical trials.
- A preoperative clinic system that risk-adjusts patient comorbidities to allow outcome evaluation for all diagnosis-related groups (DRG)s and current procedural terminology (CPT).
- The information services group provides support to routine activities such as billing and scheduling as well as special projects involving documentation, databases and daily support activities.
