Dr. Karen Armstrong Burnham MD DABPM DAAPM
Anesthesiologist | Pain Medicine
1922 Thomson Drive Suite D Lynchburg VA, 24501Rating
5/5
About
Dr. Karen Burnham is an anesthesiologist practicing in Lynchburg, VA. Dr. Burnham ensures the safety of patients who are about to undergo surgery. Anestesiologists specialize in general anesthesia, which will (put the patient to sleep), sedation, which will calm the patient or make him or her unaware of the situation, and regional anesthesia, which just numbs a specific part of the body. As an anesthesiologist, Dr. Burnham also might help manage pain after an operation.
Education and Training
Uniformed Services Univ Of The Hlth Sci- Bethesda Md 1989
Uniformed Services University of The Health Sciences,Bethesda, Md, United States 1989
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine 1989
Board Certification
AnesthesiologyAmerican Board of AnesthesiologyABA
Provider Details
Treatments
- Chronic Pain
- Pinched Nerve
- Pain
- Spinal Stenosis
- Degenerative Disc Disease (ddd)
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