Spotlight on Professions The Anesthesia Care Team CAAHEP

Spotlight on Professions The Anesthesia Care Team CAAHEP Annual Meeting Memphis, TN April 10 th 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 Highschool Diploma Pre-Med Post Secondary Pre-med Post Secondary variable 6 -6. 5 years 12 plus 800 2000 Many Degree Associate Master of Science Doctor of Medicine Certification National No Yes Pre-Req. Length Clinical Hrs Licensure

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?