Anesthesia Technician II, 40hrs/wk

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; United States; Presencial; USD 55.000 - 85.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in the United States is seeking an Anesthesia Technician 2 to support anesthetic care across multiple locations. The role includes setting up equipment, calibrating monitors, and assisting anesthesia providers with invasive lines while maintaining strict sterile technique.

The position requires ongoing competency validation, collaboration with physicians and CRNAs, and adherence to hospital policies.

Formación

• Sets up anesthetizing locations with required equipment per case.
• Maintains and tests anesthesia equipment; calibrates sensors.
• Assists with arterial and central line procedures.
• Ensures sterility and proper inventory management.
• Completes yearly competency validations.

Responsabilidades

• Sets up an anesthetizing location with required equipment.
• Interfaces with providers to tailor setup for each case.
• Calibrates monitoring systems and breathing circuits.
• Assists with arterial and central line placement.
• Cleans and maintains anesthesia machines after each case.
• Transports and monitors patients as needed in the OR.

Conocimientos

Equipment setup

Anesthesia monitoring

Troubleshooting

Patient care

Team coordination

Herramientas

EPIC integration

Anesthesia machines

Hemodynamic monitors

Descripción del empleo

When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you're making a difference in people's lives.

Under general supervision of the Anesthesia Provider, Anesthesia Technologist Manager or a designee and following established procedures, the Anesthesia Technician 2 assures the quality of service and monitoring for patients undergoing anesthesia in all anesthetizing locations throughout the hospital. Maintains, services, sets up, tests, and troubleshoots equipment and provides technical assistance to the Anesthesia staff in the care of patients. Learns supervisory responsibility for the department daily by observing the Anesthesia Tech Manager or designee. Required maintenance of all skill sets with yearly validation of competencies by the Manager or Clinical Educator, the Anesthesia Technician 2 will perform all duties and obligations associated with call and meet all of the departmental and hospital policy requirements. The colleague will remain in good standing in all areas of expectation as described below including standards of behavior and educational requirements. This will encompass all organizational standards required by LHMC.

Job Description:

Essential Duties & Responsibilities including but not limited to:

Sets-up an anesthetizing location with required equipment and supplies according to the type of cases and ages of the patients . Consults with Anesthesiologist or CRNA for specific setup needs as necessary or requested . Locations include but not limited to Operating Rooms (21 r oo ms ) , Interventional Radiology Suites, Neurointerventional Radiology Suites, CTI, Litho , EP Labs, Cath labs, MRI, and Endoscopy (5rms ) , Pulmonary, PET Scan , CT Scan and Radiation O ncology. Some areas require additional equipment and setup with an EPIC connection as they are not equipped as a full-time anesthetizing location. Sets up equipment for use in the work area such as, but not limited to, connecting input and output hoses, bronchoscopes, and assembling breathing circuits. Delivers required anesthesia equipment as needed. Sets up IV solutions, transducers, medical pump tubing and all required equipment, for cardiac monitoring. Performs leak testing, calibration replaces 02 sensors and flow sensors of anesthesia machines. Provides troubleshooting and service corrections. Changes tanks on machines and C02 absorbent canisters as needed. Cleans anesthesia machines and other anesthesia equipment after each case to meet operating room target times.

Prepares blood pressure transducers. Calibrates them to the appropriate machine . Sets up IV solutions and IV infusions. Demonstrates proficiency with functionality of various hemodynamic monitoring systems. Performs Cardiac output injectate process and reports numeric to the provider. Enters all patient data for calculations. Follows calibration sequence for SVO2 catheters.. Demonstrates proper set up of non - invasive cardiac output monitoring systems entering all data and aseptically assembling kit.

Assists the A nesthesia staff in the set up and initialization of hemodynamic monitoring equipment including arterial lines, central venous catheters, PA catheters, TEE. Assists anesthesia providers with arterial line and central line placement. Comfortable and knowledgeable about each kit available at LHMC. Based on case type and provider directives, follows proper patient sterile prep procedures, open kits using sterile technique. Calibrates equipment such as Arterial, Central line and PA transducers ensures correct labeling and monitor profiles. Demonstrates ability to aseptically connect pulmonary artery catheter and assist with placement of the PAC. S et up and prepare TEE machine for patient use.

Assists A nesthesiologists in care of patients before, during, and immediately after anesthesia which involves the following: transfer of patients from stretchers to operating table; attachment of vital signs monitoring equipment; position and hold patients for procedures, i.e spinal, epidurals; assist in endotracheal intubations by preparing and holding equipment. Assists Anesthesiologists and CRNAs with airway management, including set up of fiberoptic scope, LMA, single and double lumen tubes, jet ventilation system, atomizer and topical solutions for awake intubation. May assist with cricoid pressure during rapid sequence induction. Assists with transport monitoring of critically ill patients to intensive care units.

Tests , set s up, maintain sterile technique and process autologous blood products for reinfusion. Package, label and report to the Anesthesiologist the volume, estimated blood loss (EBL) and returned processed unit volume.

Sets up and primes rapid infuser systems and maintains aseptic technique.

Following established protocols and using proper sterile technique, in cardiac and hepatic cases draws blood from lines for labs for laboratory analysis .

Sets up and prepares Anesthesia machines for malignant hyperthermia cases, installs appro