Occupation Atlasanaesthetic technician
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/16e65196-3449-4c88-b379-0aa98f43db2b
anaesthetic technician
Anaesthetic technicians assist specialised doctors in anaesthetics. They prepare operating theatres and other specialised clinics for anaesthetic procedures, prepare the equipment needed for anaesthesia, and assist with inducing and maintaining adequate anaesthesia and post-anaesthesia procedures. They do so under supervision, following the orders of the doctor of medicine.
Job Zone
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Zone 5: Extensive Preparation Needed
Extensive preparation. Usually a graduate degree, with extensive skill, knowledge and experience — many of these occupations expect more than five years of experience.
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Occupational interest profile
CSIConventional · Social · Investigative — the three strongest interests, in order
- C Conventional5.10
- S Social4.90
- I Investigative4.62
- R Realistic4.40
- E Enterprising1.89
- A Artistic1.00
RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.
Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Anesthesiologist Assistants (29-1071.01): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, its exact O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (37)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- administer anaesthetics to patients
- anaesthetics
- assess patients after surgery
- biophysics
- communicate in healthcare
- comply with legislation related to health care
- comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
- conduct preoperative investigations
- deal with emergency care situations
- dispose medical waste
- emergency medicine
- emergency surgery
- empathise with the healthcare user
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- ensure the positioning of the patient for surgery
- first aid
- human anatomy
- human physiology
- infection control
- intensive care medicine
- maintain anaesthetic machinery
- manage healthcare users' data
- manage infection control in the facility
- medical informatics
- monitor basic patients signs
- monitor patients during surgery
- monitor stock level
- order supplies for anaesthesia services
- pharmacology
- professional documentation in health care
- resuscitation
- sterilization techniques
- surgery
- surgical asepsis
- tolerate stress
- undertake healthcare examination
- work in multidisciplinary health teams
Optional (21)
- arrange surgery operating site
- assist in epilepsy surgery
- assist with hemostasis
- demonstrate technical skills during neurological surgery
- endoscopy
- instruct on allergic reactions to anaesthetics
- manage acute pain
- manage adverse reactions to anaesthesia
- manage trauma through surgical means
- medical terminology
- perform bronchoscopy
- perform eye surgery
- perform reconstructive microsurgery
- perform vascular surgery therapeutic procedures
- perform venepuncture procedures
- positions for surgical procedures
- radiation protection
- spine surgery
- techniques of blood-sampling
- use foreign languages in patient care
- use venepuncture procedure equipment
O*NET equivalents
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