Anaesthesia | KK Women's and Children's Hospital

Paediatric Anaesthesia

To complement our paediatric surgical services, our Department of Paediatric Anaesthesia provides complete anaesthetic cover for all elective and emergency surgeries for children. We assist an average of 7,000 surgeries a year, among patients ranging from newborns to teenagers below 18 years of age.

We run a pre-anaesthesia care and counselling clinic for children requiring pre-operative consultation and optimization.

We also provide pain relief and management for children suffering from acute or chronic pain.

Range of Services

Patient related services
- Paediatric anaesthesia
  - Cardiac anaesthesia
  - Regional anaesthesia
- Pre-anaesthesia care and counselling
- Children's Pain Service
  - Management of Acute Pain
  - Management of Chronic/Complex Pain
  - Management of Procedural Pain

Non-Clinical Services
- Research
- Teaching
- Quality improvement and safety
- Patient Experience

Contact Information

Level 5, Women’s Tower, Office@L5 (WT)

65 6394 1091
65 6394 8459
65 6394 8270

Paediatric Anaesthesia Facebook Group

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