Anesthesiologist Assistants

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Anesthesia Assistant, Anesthesia Technician, Anesthesiologist Assistant, Certified Anesthesiologist Assistant

What they do:
Assist anesthesiologists in the administration of anesthesia for surgical and non-surgical procedures. Monitor patient status and provide patient care during surgical treatment.
On the job, you would:
  • 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).
  • Verify availability of operating room supplies, medications, and gases.

Knowledge

Health

  • medicine and dentistry

Arts and Humanities

  • English language

Math and Science

  • chemistry
  • arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, or statistics

Business

  • customer service

Skills

Basic Skills

  • listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
  • keeping track of how well people and/or groups are doing in order to make improvements

Problem Solving

  • noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it

People and Technology Systems

  • thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one

Abilities

Verbal

  • listen and understand what people say
  • read and understand what is written

Attention

  • pay attention to something without being distracted
  • do two or more things at the same time

Ideas and Logic

  • notice when problems happen
  • make general rules or come up with answers from lots of detailed information

Visual Understanding

  • quickly compare groups of letters, numbers, pictures, or other things

Personality

People interested in this work like activities that include helping people, teaching, and talking.

They do well at jobs that need:

  • Attention to Detail
  • Stress Tolerance
  • Dependability
  • Integrity
  • Self Control
  • Concern for Others

Technology

You might use software like this on the job:

Medical software

  • Bizmatics PrognoCIS EMR
  • eClinicalWorks EHR software Hot Technology

Presentation software

  • Microsoft PowerPoint Hot Technology

Electronic mail software

  • Email software
  • Microsoft Outlook Hot Technology

Education

Education: (rated 5 of 5)
master's degree or
high school diploma/GED
usually needed

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Job Outlook

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