In plain English
Anesthesiology is a hospital and procedure-based specialty: the work exists wherever operations and procedures happen. Sub-specialties include critical care, pain medicine, cardiac, obstetric and pediatric anaesthesia.
Anaesthesia is delivered by a care team in most of the United States. Certified registered nurse anesthetists and anesthesiologist assistants provide a large share of it, under models that differ by state and by facility, so an anaesthesia audience containing only physicians is a minority of the people at the head of the table.
The specialty is contracted and consolidated to an unusual degree. Large staffing groups hold hospital anaesthesia contracts, which means the employer on one of these records is frequently a national group rather than the hospital where the work is done.
Training and credentials
Medical school, a four-year anesthesiology residency, then board certification; pain medicine and critical care are further fellowships.
Where they practise
Hospital operating rooms and intensive care units, ambulatory surgery centres, office-based surgical suites, pain clinics.
Anesthesiologists on the public record
Counted from what providers file about themselves, with suppression applied before anything is counted, refreshed 2026-10-05. Names, specialties and practice locations are public; work email and phone are for signed-in customers.
| State | On record | With work email | With practice phone |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 10,980 | 8,095 74% | 10,980 |
| Texas | 7,239 | 5,069 70% | 7,236 |
| New York | 6,651 | 5,275 79% | 6,651 |
| Florida | 5,483 | 3,737 68% | 5,483 |
| Pennsylvania | 3,384 | 2,745 81% | 3,384 |
| Illinois | 3,345 | 2,682 80% | 3,345 |
| Ohio | 2,852 | 2,432 85% | 2,851 |
| New Jersey | 2,586 | 1,804 70% | 2,586 |
Closely related, and where to find them.
Closely related
- CRNA Certified registered nurse anesthetist - much of the anaesthesia workforce.
- General surgeon The broad abdominal and trauma specialty, and the classification other surgery is filed against.
- Pulmonologist Lung medicine, usually combined with critical care - so usually a hospital specialty.
Find them
- Anesthesiologists list counts by state, the fields a record carries, a sample record.
- Physicians physician data by specialty, state and employer.
- Anesthesiologists in New York, NY
- Anesthesiologists in Los Angeles, CA
- Anesthesiologists in Houston, TX
- Anesthesiologists in Miami, FL
- Anesthesiologists in Chicago, IL
- Anesthesiologists in Philadelphia, PA
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