UCT Department of Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine

Anaesthesia services are provided to all teaching hospitals affiliated to the University of Cape Town's Faculty of Health Sciences. These include:

New Somerset Hospital, Green Point
Mowbray Maternity Hospital, Mowbray
Valkenberg Psychiatric Hospital, Observatory
2 Military Hospital, Wynberg
Maitland Cottage Hospital, Newlands
Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital, Rondebosch

At the Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital - the only dedicated children's facility in Sub-Saharan Africa - Paediatric Anaesthesia is provided for children up to the age of 13 years, with special interests in cardiac surgery (including heart transplants), liver transplants and the separation of conjoined twins.

The departments of Anaesthesia and Respiratory Medicine (Department of Medicine) jointly manage the Respiratory Intensive Care Unit, dealing with non-cardiac medical, surgical and respiratory patients.

The Department of Anaesthesia supports the Surgical Intensive Care Unit (Department of Surgery), the Cardiac Surgery Intensive Care Unit (Cardiothoracic Surgery Division, Department of Surgery) and the multi-discipline Paediatric Intensive Care Unit at Red Cross Children's Hospital.