William Manson, MD
Anesthesiology
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Bio & Overview
William Manson, MD, is an anesthesiologist who provides nerve blocks and catheters, spinal anesthetics and other types of regional anesthesia to patients receiving a variety of surgeries, including orthopedic and plastic surgery. He is also part of the liver transplant anesthesiology team and is interested in research investigating the utilization of ultrasound to help diagnose and treat patients with critical illness.
Dr. Manson spent most of his childhood in Atlanta, and he returned to Georgia to attend Emory University School of Medicine after receiving his undergraduate degree at UVA. After medical school, Dr. Manson completed residency training in emergency medicine and an ultrasound fellowship at Yale New Haven Hospital.
Dr. Manson returned to Emory for five years to work as the director of emergency ultrasound. He then pursued additional training in anesthesiology, with a residency at University of Texas Southwestern in Dallas followed by a fellowship in regional anesthesiology at UVA. Dr. Manson became a full-time faculty member at UVA in 2017.
In his free time, Dr. Manson enjoys spending time with his wife and two young boys. He volunteers as a youth leader for his son’s Cub Scouts troop, plays tennis and explores the outdoors with family and friends.
Academic Information
- Department
- Anesthesiology
- Academic Role
- Assistant Professor
- Division
- Anesthesiology
- Gender
- Male
- Languages
- English
- Age Groups Seen
- Adults (21-65)
Older Adults (65+)
- Primary Education
- Emory University School of Medicine
- Residency
- University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
- Fellowships
- Yale-New Haven Hospital
- Certification
- American Board of Anesthesiology (Anesthesiology), American Board of Emergency Medicine (Emergency Medicine)
Highlights
Anesthesiologist William Manson, MD
I'm William Manson and I'm an anesthesiologist. Most of what I do is regional anesthesia where we do nerve blocks to help people have less pain in their extremities such as their arm or their leg. And then I also do point of care ultrasound where we use ultrasound to help diagnose what's going wrong with a patient, if they are in a critical condition coming out of the ICU. When we do a regional anesthetic technique we'll be in the room for probably about 15 or so minutes doing the regional anesthetic. Oftentimes we'll give people some sedation during that moment so that they feel a little more relaxed and then we do the regional anesthetic technique which is usually a small needle going through the skin. And it's similar to getting an I.V. place. It's just usually in a different location such as like the neck or the leg. The most rewarding aspect for me are when we get to do an anesthetic on a patient where they have a regional anesthetic technique, their arm or the leg is essentially asleep for both preoperatively, intraoperatively, postoperatively. They're surprised at how little discomfort or pain that they had throughout the thing. And they're able to leave the outpatient surgery center and it just goes really well.
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