Spotlight on Professions The Anesthesia Care Team

1. Spotlight on ProfessionsThe 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

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?