• 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.