General Practitioners

• Family Practice
  Perry Jones, M.D. Dr. Jones is a Diplomate of the American Board of Anesthesiology and Family Practice. He has additional certification in Perioperative Transesophageal Echocardiography. He has been a member of Carolina Anesthesiology since 2002. Dr. Jones received his Doctor of Medicine degree from the Uniformed Services University in Bethesda, MD where he was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society and received the Army Surgeon General's Award. Dr. Jones completed a Family Practice residency at Martin Army Community Hospital in Ft. Benning, GA., where he served as the program's Chief Resident and received the Outstanding Resident Award. After serving as a Family Physician for two years, Dr. Jones entered and completed his Anesthesiology residency at Brooke Army Medical Center (BAMC) in Ft. Sam Houston, TX where he again received the Outstanding Resident Award. He remained on the staff at BAMC serving as the Residency Education Director. While at BAMC Dr. Jones also served in various capacities to include Chief of Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology and Regional Anesthesiology, and worked in the Pain Management clinic. After completing his military career, he settled in High Point because he loved the area and it is close to his home in Mitchell County, NC. Dr. Jones is married and has two children. His professional memberships include the American Medical Association, American Society of Anesthesiologists, Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists, NC Society of Anesthesiologists, and the High Point Medical Society.
• Electrocardiogram
  When everything is ready, you will be taken into the operating room where your Anesthesiologist/ CRNA will attach you to the monitoring equipment – blood pressure cuff, electrocardiogram (EKG) leads and oxygen sensor. Then your Anesthesiologist/ CRNA will begin the anesthetic.
• Pneumonia
  Aspiration pneumonia (inhaling vomit into the lungs) can represent a most serious complication of anesthesia. Certain precautions can minimize your risk of this problem. First, we ask you NOT to EAT or DRINK anything for a certain time period before your surgery to reduce the amount and character of the acid in your stomach. Finally, we may use an endotracheal tube (breathing tube) during surgery to prevent your stomach contents from spilling over into the lung.

Ophthalmologists

• Laser Eye Surgery
  Nausea/vomiting is the most common side effect of surgery and anesthesia. General anesthetics statistically result in nausea approximately 20% of the time. Risk factors for nausea include those susceptible to motion sickness or with a prior history of nausea after procedures, female gender, gynecologic or abdominal surgery, inner ear or eye surgery, diabetes, pregnancy and obesity. We have several drugs available to treat prophylactically (before the procedure) if you are at risk. If you feel nauseated after your surgery we will aggressively treat it.

Gynecologists

• Obstetrics
  Spinal Anesthesia, Epidural Anesthesia and Caudal Anesthesia – These three techniques are quite similar in the effect that they produce. All involve the injection of a local anesthetic drug into the lower part of the back between the bony vertebrae. Spinal anesthesia involves placement of the anesthetic into the fluid surrounding the spinal cord. Epidural (caudal) anesthesia involves injection of the anesthetic in the epidural space just outside the spinal canal where the nerves leave the spinal cord. These anesthetics are most commonly used in obstetrics and surgical procedures of the lower abdomen, pelvis and lower extremities.
• Pregnancy

Internists

• Internal Medicine
  John Vance, M.D. Dr. Vance is a Diplomate of the American Board of Anesthesiology. He is also fellowship-trained in Pediatric Anesthesiology. Dr. Vance was born in Boone, N.C. and graduated from Wake Forest University in 1978. He received his Doctor of Medicine degree from Bowman Gray School of Medicine. Following a year in Internal Medicine, Dr. Vance completed his anesthesia residency at West Virginia University. He served as a Chief Resident during his Pediatric anesthesia fellowship year. He was on faculty at the Medical College of Virginia prior to coming to High Point in 1990. Dr. Vance has served on various committees at High Point Regional Hospital. He is a member of the American Society of Anesthesiologists and the North Carolina Society of Anesthesiologists. He is also a member of our local, state, and national medical societies.

Psychiatrists

• Anxiety

Endocrinologist

• Diabetes Care

Radiologist

• Ultrasound
  General anesthesia involves making a patient “unconscious” for his or her operation. Regional anesthesia includes epidural, spinal, and “nerve block” anesthesia to render the part of the body involved in surgery “numb” for the procedure. We utilize ultrasound imaging techniques for many of our nerve blocks. Frequently, regional anesthesia techniques can be continued in the post-operative period to provide pain relief using epidural and nerve block catheters. “MAC,” or Monitored Anesthesia Care, involves the monitoring of vital signs with or without providing sedation during a procedure, often in conjunction with “local anesthesia” provided by the surgeon.