General
The Department of Anesthesiology offers 6 month and 1 year fellowship experiences in obstetric and gynecologic anesthesia. All deliveries in Forsyth County take place in the Women’s Center at Forsyth Medical Center and the obstetric anesthesia services are provided by the Department of Anesthesiology of Wake Forest University School of Medicine.
Hospital
Approximately 6,500-7,000 women deliver in Forsyth Medical Center, and we provide labor analgesia for 80% of these deliveries. We are a tertiary care obstetric service and high risk, complicated, parturients comprise 30-40% of our case load. Our cesarean section rate is approximately 25%.
