Spotlight on Professions
The Anesthesia Care Team
CAAHEP Annual Meeting
Memphis, TN
April 10th 2011
Dr. Alan Marco, Ms. Claire Chandler, Ms. Vicki Reyes
Objectives
• Become familiar with the Anesthesia
Care Team
• Understand who does what
• Learn about one of the newest CAAHEP
professions
CAAHEP
• Sponsoring organizations
• American Society of Anesthesiologists
• American Academy of Anesthesiologist
Assistants
• American Society of Anesthesia Technicians
and Technologists
Anesthesia Care Team
• Anesthesiologists - Team Director
• Licensed physician
• Anesthesiologist Assistant
• Team Member - Peri-Operative Care
• Anesthesia Technologist or Technician
• Team Member - Peri-Anesthetic Care
Other Personnel
• Nursing
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Nurse Anesthetists
Post Anesthesia Care Nurse
Pre/Peri Operative Nurse
Critical Care Nurse
• Allied Health
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Respiratory Therapist
Cardiovascular Perfusionist
Blood Gas Technician
Monitoring Technicians
Education
Category
ATT
AA
MD/DO
Highschool
Diploma
Pre-Med
Post
Secondary
Pre-med
Post
Secondary
variable
6-6.5 years
12 plus
800
2000
Many
Degree
Associate
Master of
Science
Doctor of
Medicine
Certification
National
National
National
No
Yes
Yes
Pre-Req.
Length
Clinical Hrs
Licensure
What is an Anesthesiologist?
• “Anesthesiologists are doctors who
keep patients alive while surgeons
do things that would otherwise kill
them.”
• address delivered by 2002 ASA President-Elect James
E. Cottrell, M.D., to the ASA House of Delegates on
October 13, 2002, in Orlando, Florida. ASA
Newsletter, January 2003
What Patients Do We Care
For?
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Adults
Children
Neonates
Geriatrics
Men
Women
In Utero
Post Mortem (organ procurement)
Subspecialties In
Anesthesiology
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Pain Medicine
Critical Care
Pediatrics
Cardiac
• Adult
• Pediatric
• Ambulatory
• Obstetric
• Neuroanesthesia
• Orthopedic
Anesthesia
• Ophthalmologic
• Geriatric
• Hospice and
Palliative Care
Other Stuff Anesthesiologists Do
• Run ORs
• Perioperative Services Director
• Business consultant (Division of Management Consulting at U
Iowa is lead by an Anesthesiologist)
• Run Critical Care Units
• Run Pain Centers
• Run Simulation Centers
• WISER at U Pitt
• Teach
• Medical students, business school, management, etc.
• Run Hospitals
• CMO Promedica is an anesthesiologist
• Run Medical Schools and Multispecialty Practices
• Dean and CEO of Johns Hopkins Medicine is an
Anesthesiologist
• Dean of Mayo is an Anesthesiologist
What is an Anesthesiologist
Assistant
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Assist Anesthesiologists
Preanesthetic H&P
Establish invasive and non-invasive monitoring modalities
Airway management
Application and interpretation of advanced monitoring
techniques
Maintain and adjust anesthesia levels and adjunctive
treatments
Regional Anesthesia
ACLS
Post-anesthesia rounds
Assist in ICUs, pain clinics, other areas
What is an Anesthesia
Technologist & Technician
• Assist licensed anesthesia providers
• Structure, function and care of all components of
anesthesia delivery systems
• Sterile technique and the principals of aseptic practice
• Purpose, use and care of physiological monitors relating
to the administration of anesthesia
• Usage of common anesthetic gases an other medications
• Type and indications for local, monitored anesthesia care
(MAC), regional and general anesthesia
• Principles of purchasing and supply levels
Demonstration of the Care
Team Model
• Volunteers
• Scenario
Questions?