Anesthesiologist

A physician (medical doctor or doctor of osteopathy) with advanced training in perioperative medicine and airway management who provides pre-operative management, intraoperative anesthesia, and post-operative care for surgical patients. Anesthesiologists are also trained in acute and chronic pain management as well as critical care, often attending to ICU management. Like other professions, anesthesiologists sometimes utilize extenders such as Anesthesiology Assistants (AAs) or nurse anesthetists in a care team to assist in intraoperative care of patients. Anesthesiologists are the champions of patient safety and well being not only in the operating room, but in other patient care settings as well.

My anesthesiologist is my favorite doctor; they kept me safe and comfortable during my operation AND made sure I was medically cleared for surgery and attended to my acute pain after my procedure.

by Patient Safety March 2, 2018

Anaesthetic Technician

Anaesthetic Technicians mainly work in the operating theatre with anaesthetists (specialist medical doctors), they are also called to other areas of the health care facility to assist in cardiac arrest situtations or with patients who could arrest if not treated appropriately. They assist the anaesthetist in managing your airway...if you don't breath, you die and when you are anaesthetised the drugs generally make you not breath, some people are easy to maintain an airway on & others aren't and patients will die if their airway is not patent. Anaesthetic Technicians combine clinical and technical knowledge & skills to help ensure things run smoothly when you are having your surgery!

If you have a car accident and suffer massive trauma and are taken to a hospital emergency department and the staff are finding it difficult to put an airway tube in your wind pipe they call the anaesthetic team that includes the anaesthetic doctor and anaesthetic technician. Who will then also transfer you to the operating theatre and try everything to keep you alive while the surgeon patches you up. The anaesthetic team will then transfer you once you are stable to intensive care, staff there will continue the good work the anaesthetic team started.

by Bambi lives October 17, 2012

Nurse anesthesiologist

A term not recognized or used by the medical community because it misrepresents work done by advance practice nurses. More appropriately called Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs), they work under the guidance of a physician who is residency trained and possesses a medical degree - either an MD or DO. Anesthesiologists are physicians, medical doctors who have finished medical school and a rigorous residency training program to provide safe anesthesia care to patients. Nurses may also provide anesthesia, and those nurses have been known for decades as "nurse anesthetists". Recently, the nurse anesthetists have decided to call themselves nurse anesthesiologists in order to mislead and inflate a sense of self worth. The term is not recognized by the American Medical Association or American Osteopathic Association.

I wanted to grow up to become a nurse anesthesiologist but then I learned there was no such thing. I would need to become a medical doctor to be called an anesthesiologist.

by RealPhysicians2019 December 22, 2018

Nurse Anesthesiologist

Nurse Anesthesiologist:

Because badass miracle worker isn’t an official job title

Don’t worry, I am a nurse anesthesiologist, I have a perfect KO record.

by Hewhopassesgas March 14, 2019

Anaestheist

Someone who puts you to sleep with their tired religious arguments.

Our debate tonight features atheist author Christopher Hitchens vs. well known anaestheist William Lane Craig.

by ragged0claws December 20, 2010

anesthesia

Anesthesia is a everyday used substance in the medical field put lately drug dealers have been cutting heroin with it to give the junky a zombie effect

The heroin my dealer got me was so good last time so I ask him why.?.long story short he sold me a ticket of anesthesia and heroin

by qway lude D.S.I September 24, 2014

Anesthesiac

Someone who makes a promise and keeps it for a short amount of time, then goes back to what they were doing that made you ask them to stop in the first place, therefore, applying an anesthesia-like effect to the situation.

"He keeps doing it over and over, despite promising he would get better. He's such an anesthesiac."

by Anoncuck22 November 29, 2018