Specialist Anesthesiology

•    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. 
A physician shall particularly observe the following:

1)    Comply with the rules, regulations and procedures of practicing the Profession, as per his/her grade and Specialty.
2)    Maintain record of the patient including present/past/family history prior to diagnosing or treating the case.
3)    Prescribe treatment and determine the quantity and usage in legible writing including the name, signature and date on the prescription; alert the patient or his family, as the case may be, to the importance of adhering to treatment instructions and to any significant and expected side-effects of the medical or surgical treatment.
4)    Inform the patient's family of the nature and degree of seriousness of his/her illness. 
5)    Monitor complications of medical or surgical treatment and initiate remedial action where possible.
6)    Co-operate with other physicians involved in the patient's treatment, provide information on patient's medical condition and the course of treatment whenever requested to do so, and consult with a specialist colleague if the case so requires.