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1. What does the ASATT stand for?
2. In the Anesthesia Standards (Scope) of Practice, an Anesthesia Technician does which
job tasks?
3. What is the minimum educational requirement to work in a role an anesthesia
technician?
4. List ways that Anesthesia Technicians demonstrate proficiency
5. Know the minimum number of years you have to work in anesthesia or an anesthesiarelated healthcare field to be a candidate to take the national certification exam
6. Know what the abbreviations Cer. A. T. and Cer. A. T. T. mean
7. How many chambers does the heart have
8. Name the parts of the skin
9. Know the names of the parts of the skull
10. Know the names of the regions of the vertebrae (spine)
11. Know what type of blood arteries carry and the type of blood veins carry (oxygenated
or deoxygenated).
12. Know the name of the main muscle of the stomach.
13. The cervical nerves C3, C4 and C5 innervate the diaphragm and keep it alive and
working!
14. Know the name of the muscles of the arm and leg.
15. Know what normal body temperature for an adult is.
16. Know how to calculate a patient's weight in kg and vice versa. Start by calculating
your own weight into kg.
Formula: pounds (lbs.) divided by 2.2
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Math Problems (hint, learn how to do this calculation without a calculator):
126 lbs. = ____ kg
243 lbs. = _____ kg
4 lbs. = _____ kg
220 lbs. = ____kg
3.2kg = _____lbs.
89 kg = _____ lbs.
17. Know what the goal of the medical preoperative evaluation (assessment) is.
18. Know what the most-feared and most-studied complication of surgery is that requires
medical clearance.
19. What increases the risk of pulmonary complications (from the "Preoperative
Assessment" Handout.
20. Know the following medical abbreviations: ABG, bpm, CABG, DVT, GYN, H&P,
kg, L1, L2, T1 and T12, MH, SCD
21. List the different ways medications can be given and the body cavity if one is
associated
22. Know who the following history makers for Anesthesia are and what anesthetic or
title they are famous for:
Sir Humphrey Davy
Dr. Crawford W. Long
Carl Snow
Dr. James Simpson
Dr. Horace Wells, William T. G. Morton and Charles Jackson
Dr. W.E. Clark
Carl Koller
John Snow