Description
Assist anesthesiologists in the administration of anesthesia for surgical and non-surgical procedures. Monitor patient status and provide patient care during surgical treatment.
- • Verify availability of operating room supplies, medications, and gases.
- • Provide clinical instruction, supervision or training to staff in areas such as anesthesia practices.
- • Collect samples or specimens for diagnostic testing.
- • Participate in seminars, workshops, or other professional activities to keep abreast of developments in anesthesiology.
- • Collect and document patients' pre-anesthetic health histories.
- • Provide airway management interventions including tracheal intubation, fiber optics, or ventilary support.
- • Respond to emergency situations by providing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), basic cardiac life support (BLS), advanced cardiac life support (ACLS), or pediatric advanced life support (PALS).
- • Monitor and document patients' progress during post-anesthesia period.
- • Pretest and calibrate anesthesia delivery systems and monitors.
- • Assist anesthesiologists in monitoring of patients, including electrocardiogram (EKG), direct arterial pressure, central venous pressure, arterial blood gas, hematocrit, or routine measurement of temperature, respiration, blood pressure or heart rate.
- • Assist in the provision of advanced life support techniques including those procedures using high frequency ventilation or intra-arterial cardiovascular assistance devices.
- • Assist anesthesiologists in performing anesthetic procedures, such as epidural or spinal injections.
- • Assist in the application of monitoring techniques, such as pulmonary artery catheterization, electroencephalographic spectral analysis, echocardiography, or evoked potentials.
- • Administer blood, blood products, or supportive fluids.
- • Control anesthesia levels during procedures.
- • Administer anesthetic, adjuvant, or accessory drugs under the direction of an anesthesiologist.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
