Surgery
The surgery department of Mount Sinai Medical Center has a longstanding focus on high quality, responsible surgical care with an emphasis on minimally invasive options as well as experienced open surgery in an ongoing effort to improve our patients’ outcomes.
Our mission is to provide the highest level of elective and emergency clinical surgical care, to develop and innovate new techniques, to provide education to future surgeons through our residency program, and to educate surgeons in our community through continuing medical education.
Clinical Excellence
Nearly 13,000 surgical procedures are performed annually, half of them in the outpatient setting. Many of our reputable surgeons are national and international leaders in their respective fields.
Innovation and Development
Whether it is developing new techniques in laparoscopic surgery, innovation in Robotic Surgery, new methods of joint replacement, revolutionary techniques in cardiac and vascular surgery or cutting edge advances in spine and neurosurgical procedures, our physicians are always researching new ways to perform surgery with the least trauma and pain for our patients.
Mount Sinai Anesthesiology Program
Mount Sinai’s Division of Anesthesiology specializes in the care of patients who require general, regional and/or monitored anesthesia care for surgical, diagnostic or therapeutic procedures. These procedures include general surgery, neurosurgery, thoracic surgery, gynecologic and urologic surgery, head and neck surgery, reconstructive and plastic surgery, orthopaedic surgery, radiation therapy and diagnostic imaging procedures. The Division also offers a comprehensive program of pain and symptom management for non-surgical patients, including those going through the physical and emotional ordeal of cancer. To help patients cope with what can be profound, ongoing pain, the Division offers medical therapy as well as diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. Specific treatments may include medications, relaxation and stress management services and other techniques designed to relieve symptoms.
Division Specialties
- Surgical anesthetics for a variety of procedures, from general surgery to intricate neurosurgery
- Acute pain services for post-surgical patients
- Critical pain services for emergency room patients
- Long-term pain management for cancer patients and others suffering from chronic conditions
- Pre-operative consultation for patients facing elective surgery or diagnostic procedures
- Anesthesia for laboring mothers, including epidurals and pharmacological support
- Pediatric anesthesia for younger patients undergoing surgery and other procedures