Clinical Professor
To see if Timothy John Tautz is accepting new patients, or for assistance finding a UC Davis doctor, please call 800-2-UCDAVIS (800-282-3284).
Patient Support Services Building
4150 V St.
Sacramento, CA 95817
Phone: 916-734-5031
I strive to provide whole person care to my patients here at UC Davis. I want to gain their trust, answer their questions, allay their fears, while safely guiding them through the process of surgery and recovery.
Dr. Tautz is a Board Certified Anesthesiologist providing care to patients over a broad spectrum of surgical procedures. He has special clinical interest and expertise in Acute Pain and Regional Anesthesia, Obstetrical Anethesia and Analgesia, Outpatient and Orthopedic Surgery.
Dr. Tautz serves as a Board examiner for the American Board of Anesthesiology, and is an active consultant on the Malignant Hyperthermia Hotline for the Malignant Hyperthermia Association of the US.
General Anesthesiology
B.A., Pacific Union College, Angwin CA 1989
M.D., Loma Linda University School of Medicine, Loma Linda CA 1994
Internal Medicine, St. Mary’s Hospital, San Francisco CA 1994-1995
Anesthesiology, UC Davis Medical Center, Sacramento CA 1995-1998
Chief Resident, Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine, UC Davis Medical Center, 1997
Resident of the Year, Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine, UC Davis Medical Center, 1997
Tautz TJ, Urwyler A, Antognini JF, Riou B. Case scenario: Increased end-tidal carbon dioxide: a diagnostic dilemma. Anesthesiology. 2010 Feb;112(2):440-6. doi:10.1097/ALN.0b013e3181ca7c38. PMID:20068452.
Sei Y, Sambuughin NN, Davis EJ, Sachs D, Cuenca PB, Brandom BW, Tautz T, Rosenberg H, Nelson TE, Muldoon SM. Malignant hyperthermia in North America: genetic screening of the three hot spots in the type I ryanodine receptor gene. Anesthesiology. 2004 Oct;101(4):824-30. doi:10.1097/00000542-200410000-00005. PMID:15448513.
Gronert GA, Pessah IN, Muldoon SM, Tautz TJ. Malignant Hyperthermia. Miller R, (ed), Miller's Anesthesia, Vol. 1, Elsevier Churchill Livingstone. 2004:1169-1190.
Martin JT, Tautz TJ, Antognini JF. Safety of regional anesthesia in Eisenmenger's syndrome. Reg Anesth Pain Med. 2002;27(5):509-13.
Antognini JF, Tautz T. Human Stress Syndrome. Schulte J, Esch AM, et. al., (ed), Malignant Hyperthermia, Pabst Science Publishers, Lengerich, Berlin, Riga, Rom, Wien, Zagreb. 2000;346-353.