Spotlight on ProfessionsThe Anesthesia Care Team

1. Spotlight on Professions
The Anesthesia Care Team
CAAHEP Annual Meeting
Memphis, TN
April 10th 2011
Dr. Alan Marco, Ms. Claire Chandler, Ms. Vicki Reyes

2. Objectives
• Become familiar with the Anesthesia
Care Team
• Understand who does what
• Learn about one of the newest CAAHEP
professions

3. CAAHEP
• Sponsoring organizations
• American Society of Anesthesiologists
• American Academy of Anesthesiologist
Assistants
• American Society of Anesthesia Technicians
and Technologists

4. Anesthesia Care Team
• Anesthesiologists - Team Director
• Licensed physician
• Anesthesiologist Assistant
• Team Member - Peri-Operative Care
• Anesthesia Technologist or Technician
• Team Member - Peri-Anesthetic Care

5. Other Personnel
• Nursing
• Nurse Anesthetists
• Post Anesthesia Care Nurse
• Pre/Peri Operative Nurse
• Critical Care Nurse
• Allied Health
• Respiratory Therapist
• Cardiovascular Perfusionist
• Blood Gas Technician
• Monitoring Technicians

6. Education
Category ATT AA MD/DO
Pre-Req. Highschool
Diploma
Pre-Med
Post
Secondary
Pre-med
Post
Secondary
Length variable 6-6.5 years 12 plus
Clinical Hrs 800 2000 Many
Degree Associate Master of
Science
Doctor of
Medicine
Certification National National National
Licensure No Yes Yes

7. 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

8. What Patients Do We Care
For?
• Adults
• Children
• Neonates
• Geriatrics
• Men
• Women
• In Utero
• Post Mortem (organ procurement)

9. Subspecialties In
Anesthesiology
• Pain Medicine
• Critical Care
• Pediatrics
• Cardiac
• Adult
• Pediatric
• Ambulatory
• Obstetric
• Neuroanesthesia
• Orthopedic
Anesthesia
• Ophthalmologic
• Geriatric
• Hospice and
Palliative Care

10. 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

11. What is an Anesthesiologist
Assistant
• 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

12. 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

13. Demonstration of the Care
Team Model
• Volunteers
• Scenario

18. Questions?