Job Description:

• 1) Administers anesthetics to render patients insensible to pain during surgical, obstetrical, and other medical procedures: Examines patient to determine degree of surgical risk, and type of anesthetic and sedation to administer, and discusses findings with medical practitioner concerned with case.

• 2) Positions patient on operating table and administers local, intravenous, spinal, caudal, or other anesthetic according to prescribed medical standards.

• 3) Institutes remedial measures to counteract adverse reactions or complications.

• 4) Records type and amount of anesthetic and sedation administered and condition of patient before, during, and after anesthesia.

• 5) May instruct medical students and other personnel in characteristics and methods of administering various types of anesthetics, signs and symptoms of reactions and complications, and emergency measures to employ.