anaesthetic technician
ISCO: 3259. Skills: 58. Essential: 37.
Essential skills
- 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
Supporting skills
- 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