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Anesthesiologists
Administer anesthetics and analgesics for pain management prior to, during, or after surgery.
- US jobs
- 38,760
- Median wage
- $391,490 a year
- Job family
- Healthcare
Can agents do the work of anesthesiologists?
We read the evidence for the whole job family, Healthcare: Some tasks (no change in 12 months)
Agents complete 20% or more of the tasks (or projects) on a direct benchmark.
Evidence: MedAgentBench, 69.7% of tasks completed.
0% of this occupation's work, by O*NET work activities, is measured by a direct benchmark.
- 14%Confer with healthcare or other professionals about patient careNot measured
- 12%Monitor health conditions of humans or animalsNot measured
- 8%Assist healthcare practitioners during medical proceduresNot measured
- 8%Administer basic health care or medical treatmentsNot measured
- 7%Train others on health or medical topicsNot measured
- 6%Examine people or animals to assess health conditions or physical characteristicsNot measured
- 6%Maintain health or medical recordsNot measured
- 5%Supervise personnel activitiesNot measured
Benchmarks for the job family
These cover work in healthcare, not always this occupation's tasks.
Direct evidence
Work benchmarks mapped primary to this family. They set the step when they report how many tasks agents complete.
Also relevant
These benchmarks cover part of this family's work, or have no result yet. They do not set its step.
Context only
These benchmarks span many occupations, or they test how agents behave. They give context but do not set the step.
Typical tasks
From O*NET 31.0. Core tasks first. Few of these tasks have a benchmark today.
- Examine patient, obtain medical history, and use diagnostic tests to determine risk during surgical, obstetrical, and other medical procedures.
- Administer anesthetic or sedation during medical procedures, using local, intravenous, spinal, or caudal methods.
- Record type and amount of anesthesia and patient condition throughout procedure.
- Monitor patient before, during, and after anesthesia and counteract adverse reactions or complications.
- Decide when patients have recovered or stabilized enough to be sent to another room or ward or to be sent home following outpatient surgery.
- Coordinate administration of anesthetics with surgeons during operation.
- Position patient on operating table to maximize patient comfort and surgical accessibility.
- Coordinate and direct work of nurses, medical technicians, and other health care providers.
- Provide and maintain life support and airway management and help prepare patients for emergency surgery.
- Confer with other medical professionals to determine type and method of anesthetic or sedation to render patient insensible to pain.
- Manage anesthesiological services, coordinating them with other medical activities and formulating plans and procedures.
- Place invasive intravascular monitors into patients.
Other job titles for this occupation (18)
Anesthesiologist MD (Anesthesiologist Medical Doctor) · Anesthesiology Resident · Attending Anesthesiologist · Cardiothoracic Anesthesiologist · Critical Care Anesthesiologist · Medical Doctor (MD) · Obstetrical Anesthesiologist · Pediatric Anesthesiologist · Physician · Physician Anesthesiologist · Ambulatory Anesthesiologist · Anesthesiology Pain Management Physician · Anesthesiology Physician · Anesthetist · Cardiac Anesthesiologist · DO Physician (Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine Physician) · Doctor · General Anesthesiologist