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Department Statistics

In 1986, when Dr. Nigel Sharrock was appointed Director of the Department of Anesthesiology at HSS, regional anesthesia was used in less than 15% of all surgical procedures. In 2010, more than 85% of the surgical procedures at HSS employed regional anesthesia techniques. This change in practice can be directly attributed to Dr. Sharrock, who pioneered the regional anesthesia practice at HSS, believing it to be the safest practice for our orthopaedic surgery population.

Operating Room

33,192 OR anesthetics were performed in 2010. These numbers represent a 7% growth over the number of OR anesthetics in 2009. A review of statistics for the past five calendar years shows a 22% growth since 2006.

	Total # of OR Procedures	Yearly Variance
2006	25,843
2007	28,779	11.36%
2008	31,199	8.41%
2009	31,143	-0.18%
2010	33,192	2.51%

View OR Procedures for Year 2010 by Month (pdf)

Acute Pain Service

11,606 patients were treated by our Acute Pain Service Team in 2010, an increase of 20% over our 2006 volume.

	Acute Pain Procedures	Yearly Variance
2006	9,331
2007	9,990	7.06%
2008	11,106	11.17%
2009	11,385	2.51%
2010	11,606	1.94%

View Acute Pain Procedures for Year 2010 by Month (pdf)

Division of Musculoskeletal and Interventional Pain Management

Our Division of Musculoskeletal and Interventional Pain Management treated over 15,000 patients in 2010, an increase of 22% over 2009 statistics.

Recuperative Pain Medicine Service

Our Recuperative Pain Medicine Service treated 1,328 patients in 2010.

In 2010, 28,408 patients were treated by the physicians from all of our Pain Services.