Our Anesthesia Team

Rita Moorman, MD, has been Dr. Teitelbaum's Director of Anesthesia since he opened his surgery center in 1995. Dr. Moorman and her two colleagues, Glenn Izmirian, MD, and Richard Libao, MD, provide all the anesthesia care.

Dr. Rita Moorman

Dr. Moorman graduated from Louisiana State University Medical School in New Orleans at the top of her class. She then completed an Internal Medicine internship at Mount Auburn Hospital in Boston and her Anesthesia residency at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston. Both facilities are major teaching hospitals of Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Moorman was then an Instructor in Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School before relocating to California. She was Director of Anesthesia and Chief of Cardiac Anesthesia at Long Beach Community Hospital for many years before joining Dr. Teitelbaum as his full-time Director of Anesthesia.

Dr. Moorman and her two colleagues each have more than 20 years of experience as anesthesiologists, are all Board Certified by the American Board of Anesthesiology, and are all ACLS certified.

Dr. Rita Moorman

In addition, Dr. Moorman voluntarily obtained a Certificate of Recertification from the American Board of Anesthesiology. Our anesthesia team prioritizes the safety and comfort of our patients and uses state-of-the-art anesthesia techniques and equipment, including BIS monitoring.

Exceptional Nursing Team & World-Class Knowledge

The nursing team is always intentionally over-staffed. All nurses have extensive experience in plastic surgery and strong backgrounds in hospital operating rooms or intensive care units.

Dr. Teitelbaum's standard team includes a scrub tech who has worked exclusively in plastic surgery for over 25 years. In addition to her professional talents, she has scrubbed for Dr. Teitelbaum for over 10 years and anticipates everything he needs.

There is always an RN (registered nurse) circulating in the operating room and another RN in the recovery room. Each of them has over twenty years of plastic surgery experience. A third, highly experienced RN prepares patients for surgery and provides breaks for the other RNs, ensuring everyone is fresh and rested.

High Quality Care, High Quality Materials

To complement the quality of the team, the operating equipment is of the highest caliber: the latest anesthesia machines, monitors, and "brain-mapping" devices are used. These machines keep you under constant surveillance, ensuring you are fully asleep at all times and that all your vital functions remain healthy.

Regarding the choice of anesthetic medicine, our anesthesiologists use whichever drug will give a patient the safest treatment and fastest recovery for their body. This choice can sometimes lead to higher costs, but our patients report a much better anesthesia experience than they had elsewhere.

Every product that Dr. Teitelbaum and his team use is selected for its highest quality. From equipment to sutures and gauze, Dr. Teitelbaum works with the very best materials available to maximize his patients' potential.

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