Spotlight on ProfessionsThe Anesthesia Care

TeamCAAHEP 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• Nurse Anesthetists• Post Anesthesia Care Nurse• Pre/Peri Operative Nurse• Critical Care Nurse

• Allied Health• Respiratory Therapist• Cardiovascular Perfusionist• Blood Gas Technician• Monitoring Technicians

Education Category ATT AA MD/DO

Pre-Req. Highschool

Diploma

Pre-Med Post

Secondary

Pre-med Post

SecondaryLength variable 6-6.5

years12 plus

Clinical Hrs 800 2000 ManyDegree Associate Master of

ScienceDoctor of Medicine

Certification National National NationalLicensure No Yes Yes

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?

• Adults• Children• Neonates• Geriatrics• Men• Women• In Utero• Post Mortem (organ procurement)

Subspecialties In Anesthesiology

• 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• 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?