Lead Anesthesia Tech

MedStar Health; Baltimore (MD); On-site; USD 31,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

MedStar Health is seeking an Anesthesia Technician at MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center in Baltimore. You will coordinate work assignments, maintain anesthesia equipment, assist anesthesiologists and CRNAs, and ensure supplies are clean and ready for procedures.

Responsibilities include set-up of fibers, airway equipment, medications, and IV fluids; stocking, sterilizing, and transporting equipment to operating rooms; and contributing to staff training and safety practices.

Qualifications

• Requires ability to read and write and basic grammar/arithmetic.
• May require basic use of office/medical equipment.
• Laboratory/operating room support experience may be helpful.

Responsibilities

• Coordinates Anesthesia Technician work assignments and distribution of equipment.
• Inspects and tests anesthesia equipment for safety and readiness.
• Assists anesthesiologist/CRNA in airway management and setup of equipment.
• Delivers and transports anesthesia machines, carts, and materials as needed.
• Prepares medications and IV fluids for anesthesia administration.
• Coordinates movement of anesthesia materials between departments and storerooms.
• Sterilizes laryngoscope blades and fiber-optic equipment; assists in cleaning stations between surgeries.
• Cleans, stocks, and prepares anesthesia stations between cases and after terminal cleaning.
• Assists in positioning patients for surgery and participates in in-service classes.

Skills

Reading and writing

Grammar and arithmetic

Anesthesia equipment handling

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Technical or specialized training

Tools

Sterile equipment

Job description

About the Job

Coordinates and distributes work assignments to Anesthesia Technicians throughout MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center. Provides patient care and technical support to anesthesiologist and certified registered nurse anesthetist by ensuring that anesthesia supplies and equipment in the Operating rooms Labor & Delivery suites Post Anesthesia Care Unit and other locations are clean and functional.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Coordinates Anesthesia Technician's work assignments and distribution of equipment throughout MFSMC anesthesia stations. *
• Assists in monitoring equipment safety and scheduling preventive maintenance and repair service. Inspects and tests anesthesia equipment to ensure that equipment is readily available clean and in good operating condition. Performs preventive maintenance troubleshooting and minor repairs on instruments and equipment. Delivers malfunctioning equipment to the Biomedical Engineering department. *
• Assists anesthesiologist and certified registered nurse anesthetist (CRNA) in airway management of patients. Sets-up fiber-optic equipment invasive monitoring equipment transducer cables and tubing fluid and head humidifiers pacemakers esophageal pacing and electrodes. *
• Delivers emergency anesthesia machines carts and materials to operating rooms and other hospital satellite locations. *
• Draws medication into syringes dates labels and distributes to anesthesia stations. Sets-up anesthesia stations with medications and intravenous fluids for emergency surgery. *
• Receives inspects and exchanges carts and bulk supplies from Medical Materials department. Coordinates the movement of all incoming stored and reused anesthesia materials between Receiving Medical Materials Biomedical Engineering Sterile Processing Department Operating room and other areas. *
• Sterilizes laryngoscope blades and fiber-optic equipment. Collects and prepares other anesthesia instruments and equipment for sterilization by Sterile Processing Department (SPD). *
• Inspects and stocks Code Blue boxes Latex Allergy Malignant Hyperthermia and Anesthesia carts. Inventories carts and stocks supplies and drugs at par levels. *
• Cleans and prepares anesthesia stations between surgeries and after terminal cleaning.
• Assists in positioning patients for surgery.
• Attends and assists in the presentation of in-service classes and seminars.

Minimal Qualifications

Education

• High School Diploma or GED required
• May require up to l year of technical or other specialized training.

Experience

• 3 to 5 years of Anesthesia Tech experience required

Knowledge Skills and Abilities

• Requires the ability to read and write and knowledge of grammar and arithmetic including fractions and decimals.
• May require the use of standard office/medical equipment (i.e. typewriter personal computer data terminal on-line printer calculator telephone facsimile copier sterilizing equipment blood pressure cuff OR tables).
• May require the preparation comparison or checking of reports records and related data.
• May require basic use of formulas charts tables drawings and knowledge of their application.

This position has a hiring range of USD $22.48 - USD $39.75 /Hr.