PHYSICIAN (ANESTHESIOLOGY)

Job Title

Anesthesiologist

Job Duties

Provide contemporary regional and general anesthesia care including pediatric, geriatric patients; obstetric anesthesia; and anesthesia for all surgical specialties.

Perform the most advanced diagnostic and treatment procedures without professional direction.

Participate in the handling of other catastrophic problems where the skills of an anesthesiologist are also applicable, e.g., drug overdoses, cardiac arrest, and respiratory problems.

Serve as consultant for the administration of anesthesia by nurse anesthetist.

Implement the proper use of mechanical ventilators in the recovery room, and as necessary in the intensive care units.

Provide consultation regarding preoperative preparation, intro and postoperative anesthetic management, and treatment of chronic pain patients.

Responsible for accurate completion of required forms, reports, and medical records.

Review anesthetic records and charts of personnel supervised to assure proper professional quality control.

Serve as adjunct faculty of the U.S. Army Graduate Program in Anesthesia Nursing Phase II.

Responsible for the nursing anesthesia staff, nursing anesthesia students.

Supervise, teach, and counsel medical students, resident physicians, and dental fellows rotating through the Anesthesiology Service in the proper administration of anesthesia.

Ensure the operating room's prompt and safe accomplishment of its mission. Efficiently and fairly schedules and allots operating room time to the surgical specialties.

Teach airway management and IV training, including central lines. Continues the updating and ordering of new anesthesia and monitoring equipment.

Help function as ward officer for Surgical Recovery Room.