Description
Work under the direction of an anesthesiologist to deliver anesthesia and perioperative care for surgical and diagnostic procedures, including patient assessment, anesthetic administration, monitoring, and post-anesthesia care.
- • Verify availability of anesthesia supplies, medications, equipment, and gases.
- • Provide clinical instruction or training on anesthesia practices and equipment.
- • Collect specimens for diagnostic testing.
- • Maintain continuing education through seminars, workshops, and professional activities.
- • Obtain and document preanesthetic evaluations and health histories.
- • Perform airway management, including mask ventilation, tracheal intubation, fiberoptic techniques, and ventilatory support.
- • Respond to emergencies with CPR, BLS, ACLS, or PALS as appropriate.
- • Monitor and document patient status in the post-anesthesia period.
- • Pretest, set up, and calibrate anesthesia machines and monitors.
- • Monitor physiologic parameters such as ECG, invasive pressures, arterial blood gases, hematocrit, temperature, respiration, blood pressure, and heart rate.
- • Assist with advanced life support techniques, including high-frequency ventilation and intra-arterial assist devices.
- • Assist anesthesiologists with neuraxial or regional procedures, such as epidural or spinal anesthesia.
- • Assist with advanced monitoring, including pulmonary artery catheterization, EEG spectral analysis, echocardiography, or evoked potentials.
- • Administer blood, blood products, and supportive fluids.
- • Titrate and control anesthesia levels during procedures under anesthesiologist supervision.
- • Administer anesthetic, adjuvant, and accessory drugs as directed by an anesthesiologist.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
