Central Wisconsin Anesthesia Services

Berlin Location
Berlin Memorial Hospital
225 Memorial Drive
Berlin, WI 54923
(920) 361-5538


Wild Rose Location
Wild Rose Community Memorial Hospital
601 Grove St
Wild Rose, WI 54984
(920) 622-3257



Anesthesiologist
Dr. D. Resop, MD
Dr. T. Kloosterboer, MD

Anesthetists
Kristin Koch, CRNA
Keith Krause, CRNA
Franklin J. McShane, CRNA
Philip Mittelstaedt, CRNA
Dina Nelson, CRNA
Todd Nelson, CRNA
Tom Simpkins, CRNA
Tony Singh, CRNA
Mike Wolf, CRNA


The team at Central Wisconsin Anesthesia Association (CWAA) offers choices to each patient on the type of anesthesia they prefer. Both options described below are offered with CWAA.

General anesthesia means that you are both unconscious, and the sensation of pain is blocked throughout your entire body. General anesthesia involves putting you into a very deep sleep (usually with rapidly-acting medications through your iv) and then keeping you asleep and comfortable during the procedure – usually using both intravenous and inhaled medications. When the procedure is over, we wake you up by stopping the administration of the drugs that keep you asleep – but continue the medications that relieve pain so that you can finish waking up from anesthesia in reasonable comfort.

After you are completely asleep, we may gently place a soft plastic protective device in your airway to ensure that sure you’re breathing adequately. This device is removed at the very moment you awaken, and it is very rare that the patient is even aware that it was there.

Regional anesthesia refers to a broad category of anesthetic techniques that involve preventing the sensation of pain in only part of the body. You may choose to remain completely awake, or receive sedation (stopping short of general anesthesia) and sleep throughout the procedure. Regional anesthetic techniques include spinal and epidural blocks, as well as a variety of blocks that affect only a single limb (arm or leg), or sometimes only a part of a limb.

While both general and regional anesthetic options are very safe, regional anesthetic techniques do offer attractive advantages in the areas of airway management, postoperative pain control and the prevention of postoperative nausea and vomiting. Not all procedures can be performed under regional anesthesia.

Your anesthesia provider will be happy to discuss the anesthetic options that reasonably apply to the procedure you are having, and answer any questions you have about the relative merits of each.


Central Wisconsin Anesthesia, along with Berlin Memorial Hospital, is a clinical training site for the Army Graduate Program in Anesthesia Nursing.