Neuroanesthesia
Foothills Medical Centre (FMC) is a tertiary/quaternary level 1 trauma centre that provides a full spectrum of subspecialty neurosurgical care to patients from southeastern British Columbia, southern Alberta, and southern Saskatchewan (catchment of over 2 million people). In addition, FMC is an internationally recognized centre for interventional neuroradiology and stroke care as well as home to the largest comprehensive spine surgery program in the country. Anesthetic services for these procedures are provided by the Department of Anesthesiology at FMC.
The Section of Neuroanesthesia at FMC is comprised of seven fellowship-trained neuroanesthesiologists. We provide support for complex cases and disseminate pertinent information on neuroanesthetic topics to the rest of the department. Our group collaborates with surgical services on quality assurance and international research initiatives. We exclusively staff the intraoperative MRI theatre as well as provide anesthetic care for more novel surgical techniques including laser neurosurgery, robotic neurosurgery, and MR-guided focused ultrasound. We receive two neurosurgical or spine surgery assignments per week while also staffing a wide breadth of anesthetic services ranging from obstetrics and orthopedics to thoracic surgery and complex oncologic resections. Neurophysiologic monitoring is routinely employed.
A complex spine anesthesia group comprising five anesthesiologists care for all patients undergoing major deformity surgery. We operate a preoperative assessment clinic and participate in multidisciplinary rounds dedicated to this patient population. The group provides leadership in an ERAS pathway for patients undergoing lumbar spine surgery, awake spine surgery, and an upcoming endoscopic spine surgery program.
Finally, we coordinate resident education in spine and neuroanesthesia which includes junior and senior clinical rotations as well as a dedicated series of lectures for the resident core program. We provide a one-year comprehensive fellowship training program.
Perioperative Medicine Fellowship Contacts
Dr. Kyle Rogan
Email: kyle.rogan@ahs.ca
Dr. Kyle Rogan (MD FRCPC) is a neuroanesthesiologist in the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine at the Cumming School of Medicine. He underwent undergraduate training in physiology followed by medical school at the University of Alberta. He subsequently completed residency training in anesthesiology at the University of Calgary and subspecialty training in neuroanesthesia at Toronto Western Hospital. Dr. Rogan is currently the anesthesia site-lead for ERAS in spine surgery. His research interests include spinal cord stimulators in spinal cord injury, dexmedetomidine target controlled infusions, and pain management after spinal surgery.