Eric DeHorta

Dr. Eric DeHorta is a welcome sight to many laboring women and surgery patients. An anesthesiologist, Dr. DeHorta studied at Miami-Dade Community College and received his Doctor of Medicine at Universidad Central del Este in the Dominican Republic.

Starting in the early 1990s, Dr. Eric DeHorta has practiced medicine in several hospitals, but has been at Wooster Community Hospital in Wooster, Ohio, since 1994, where he holds the title of Staff Anesthesiologist and serves as the Chair of the Anesthesiology Department. An advocate for community health services, Dr. DeHorta previously contributed time as the Volunteer Medical Director of the Viola Startzman Free Clinic, also in Wooster.

Also in the 1990s, Dr. Eric DeHorta and his colleagues studied the effects of epidural anesthesia in laboring women who had been diagnosed with a particular type of bacterial infection and released their results in “Safety of Spinal and Epidural Anesthesia in Parturients with Chorioamnionitis,” an article that appeared in a 1996 issue of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine. The conclusion of the study, which involved 500 women, was that epidural anesthesia was relatively safe for the mothers in question.

When Dr. DeHorta is not working as an anesthesiologist, he enjoys reading Hemingway novels such as The Old Man and the Sea. Licensed as both a private and commercial pilot, he also enjoys flying.