Anesthesia Assistant, Operating Room
BC Children’s Hospital
Vancouver, BC
What you’ll do
Set up, test, calibrate, operate and monitor equipment for regular use including anesthetic machines, breathing circuits, ventilators, scavenging devices, intubation equipment, fiberoptic bronchoscopes, monitoring equipment, infusion devices and blood gas machines. Assist the anesthesiologist with the trial use and evaluation of new equipment.Prepare patients for surgery and perform pre-operative assessments as requested by the anesthesiologist.Insert or assist with the insertion of devices such as nasogastric tubes, esophageal stethoscopes, IV’s, intra-arterial lines, PIC lines, Swan Ganz catheters and Central Venous catheters.Assist with or perform airway management, including insertion of laryngeal mask airways, intubations, difficult intubations and mask ventilation.Assist in the positioning of patients under the...