Lead Anesthesia Tech

Anesthesia Technician

Coordinates and distributes work assignments to Anesthesia Technicians throughout MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center. Provides patient care and technical support to anesthesiologist and certified registered nurse anesthetist by ensuring that anesthesia supplies and equipment in the Operating rooms Labor & Delivery suites Post Anesthesia Care Unit and other locations are clean and functional.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Coordinates Anesthesia Technician's work assignments and distribution of equipment throughout MFSMC anesthesia stations.
• Assists in monitoring equipment safety and scheduling preventive maintenance and repair service. Inspects and tests anesthesia equipment to ensure that equipment is readily available clean and in good operating condition. Performs preventive maintenance troubleshooting and minor repairs on instruments and equipment. Delivers malfunctioning equipment to the Biomedical Engineering department.
• Assists anesthesiologist and certified registered nurse anesthetist (CRNA) in airway management of patients. Sets-up fiber-optic equipment invasive monitoring equipment transducer cables and tubing fluid and head humidifiers pacemakers esophageal pacing and electrodes.
• Delivers emergency anesthesia machines carts and materials to operating rooms and other hospital satellite locations.
• Draws medication into syringes dates labels and distributes to anesthesia stations. Sets-up anesthesia stations with medications and intravenous fluids for emergency surgery.
• Receives inspects and exchanges carts and bulk supplies from Medical Materials department. Coordinates the movement of all incoming stored and reused anesthesia materials between Receiving Medical Materials Biomedical Engineering Sterile Processing Department Operating room and other areas.
• Sterilizes laryngoscope blades and fiber-optic equipment. Collects and prepares other anesthesia instruments and equipment for sterilization by Sterile Processing Department (SPD).
• Inspects and stocks Code Blue boxes Latex Allergy Malignant Hyperthermia and Anesthesia carts. Inventories carts and stocks supplies and drugs at par levels.
• Cleans and prepares anesthesia stations between surgeries and after terminal cleaning.
• Assists in positioning patients for surgery.
• Attends and assists in the presentation of in-service classes and seminars.

Minimal Qualifications

Education

• High School Diploma or GED required
• May require up to l year of technical or other specialized training.

Experience

• 3 to 5 years of Anesthesia Tech experience required

Knowledge Skills and Abilities

• Requires the ability to read and write and knowledge of grammar and arithmetic including fractions and decimals.
• May require the use of standard office/medical equipment (i.e. typewriter personal computer data terminal on-line printer calculator telephone facsimile copier sterilizing equipment blood pressure cuff OR tables).
• May require the preparation comparison or checking of reports records and related data.
• May require basic use of formulas charts tables drawings and knowledge of their application.

This position has a hiring range of

USD $22.48 - USD $39.75 /Hr.