What You'll Do

  • 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.

Essential Skills

Active Listening 4.0/5
Reading Comprehension 3.75/5
Monitoring 3.75/5
Speaking 3.62/5
Critical Thinking 3.62/5
Judgment and Decision Making 3.62/5
Active Learning 3.5/5
Operations Monitoring 3.38/5
Time Management 3.38/5
Service Orientation 3.25/5
Writing 3.12/5
Social Perceptiveness 3.12/5

Career Fit Overview

Use this summary to understand the kind of profile this role rewards. It helps you judge whether this career looks like a stronger match than your current role, a nearby move worth exploring, or a broader path to compare more seriously.

Top passions

  • Helper: Supporting people and making a difference matters to you.
  • Organizer: Bringing order to data and processes satisfies you.
  • Analyst: Investigating problems and finding patterns keeps you engaged.

Common styles

Attention to Detail, Stress Tolerance, Dependability, Cautiousness, Self-Control

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Key Abilities

This career demands strong capabilities in the following areas:

Oral Comprehension 4.12/5
Problem Sensitivity 4.12/5
Written Comprehension 4.0/5
Deductive Reasoning 3.88/5
Inductive Reasoning 3.88/5
Oral Expression 3.75/5
Perceptual Speed 3.75/5
Selective Attention 3.75/5

Technologies & Tools

Allscripts PM athenahealth athenaCollector Automatic Data Processing AdvancedMD EHR Benchmark Systems Benchmark Clinical EHR Bizmatics PrognoCIS EMR CareCloud Central Cerner PowerWorks Practice Management eClinicalWorks EHR software Email software Epic Practice Management GalacTek ECLIPSE GE Healthcare Centricity Practice Solution Greenway Medical Technologies PrimeSUITE HealthFusion MediTouch IOS Health Systems Medios EHR Kareo Practice Management McKesson Practice Plus Microsoft Access Microsoft Excel Microsoft Office software

Work Environment & Strengths

Common Strengths for This Career

  • Attention to Detail (High importance: 5.0/5)
  • Stress Tolerance (High importance: 5.0/5)
  • Dependability (High importance: 4.95/5)
  • Cautiousness (High importance: 4.83/5)
  • Self-Control (High importance: 4.75/5)

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How to Become One

This career requires extensive preparation, typically including a graduate degree (Master's or Doctoral) and several years of experience. Most professionals in this field have invested significant time in education and training.

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Also Known As

This career is known by many different job titles across industries. Here are all the variations:

Anesthesia Assistant Anesthesia Technician Anesthesia Technologist Anesthesiologist Assistant Anesthesiologists' Assistant Cardiothoracic Anesthesia Technician Certified Anesthesia Technician Certified Anesthesiologist Assistant Operating Room Technician

Career Fit FAQs

Is this career a good fit for me

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Can this help if I want to stay in my field

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What should I compare first

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