Specialty of medicine focused on the care of patients before, during and after surgery and pain.

Pain Medicine

Subspecialties

• cardiac anesthesia
• critical care medicine
• obstetrics anesthesia
• pain medicine
• pediatric anesthesia

Organizations

• Canadian Anesthesiologists' Society
• American Society of Anesthesiologists
• International Anesthesia Research Society
• World Federation of Societies of Anesthesiologists

Journals

• Anesthesiology
• Journal of Clinical Anesthesia
• BMC Anesthesiology

Resources