Job description:
- Conduct preanesthetic assessment, including review of history, examination, risk stratification, and optimization of patients for anesthesia.
- Explain anesthetic plan, risks, benefits, and alternatives to patients and/or families; obtain informed consent as per hospital policy.
- Administer anesthesia (general, regional, local, sedation) for elective and emergency surgical and diagnostic procedures in line with accepted standards and hospital protocols.
- Monitor patients vital signs, depth of anesthesia, fluid and blood product requirements, and adjust anesthetic management accordingly to maintain hemodynamic stability and patient safety.
- Provide safe emergence from anesthesia, ensuring airway protection, adequate ventilation, pain control, and transfer to recovery/postanesthesia care unit (PACU).
- Manage acute postoperative pain and immediate postoperative complications in PACU, ICU, and wards as required.
- Participate in the anesthesia management of highrisk patients and complex surgeries in collaboration with surgical and critical care teams.
- Provide emergency anesthesia and resuscitation services (e.g., trauma, code blue response, obstetric emergencies) within the scope of the agreed parttime roster.
