Consultant - Anaesthesia

Overview

• Develops, implements, and maintains anesthesia procedures and practices.
• Works closely with OT staff, hospital staffs, department directors, and physicians to ensure the highest standards of quality and service are maintained.
• Collaborate with the staffs of Anesthesia: technicians and nurses.
• Responsible for the efficient operation of anesthesia services.
• Physician will maintain an active Privilege per the specialty that is consistent with the scope of services and the required experiences to practice it, which is renewable every 2 years.
• Monitor patient before, during, and after anesthesia and counteract adverse reactions or complications.
• Record type and amount of anesthesia and patient condition throughout procedure.
• Provide and maintain life support and airway management and help prepare patients for emergency surgery.
• Administer anesthetic or sedation during medical procedures, using local, intravenous, spinal, or caudal methods or epidural – performing painless labour (epidural analgesia)
• Examine patient, obtain medical history, and use diagnostic tests to determine risk during surgical, obstetrical, and other medical procedures.
• Position patient on operating table to maximize patient comfort and surgical accessibility.
• Coordinate administration of anesthetics with surgeons during operation
• Decide when patients have recovered or stabilized enough to be sent to another room or ward or to be sent home following outpatient surgery.Confer with other medical professionals to determine type and method of anesthetic or sedation to render patient insensible to pain.
• Order laboratory tests, x-rays, and other diagnostic procedures.
• Inform students and staff of types and methods of anesthesia administration, signs of complications, and emergency methods to counteract reactions.
• Provide medical care and consultation in many settings, prescribing medication and treatment and referring patients for surgery.
• Manage anesthesiological services, coordinating them with other medical activities and formulating plans and procedures.
• Performing regional anesthesia, and nerve block with the aid of ultrasound machine.
• Instruct individuals and groups on ways to preserve health and prevent disease.
• Coordinate and direct work of nurses, medical technicians, and other health care providers.
• Developing, implementing, monitoring, and maintaining anesthesia services policies and Procedures;
• Schedule and maintain use of surgical suite, including operating, wash-up, waiting rooms, and anesthetic and sterilizing equipment.
• Ensure a smooth and effective functioning to provide quality and safe patient care.
• Administrative oversight.
• Ensure that adequate staff with required qualification, training, experience and with necessary privileging, as well as equipment and other resources are available to meet patient's needs at all time.
• Maintaining necessary quality control program.