My future career goal is to become an anesthesiologist. An anesthesiologist administers an anesthetic to patients before going into surgery. They also have to keep monitor of vital life signs and make sure everything in the body is functioning properly while under the anesthetic. I think being an anesthesiologist is something I’d enjoy being because I like being in control. I like making sure people are okay and that is specifically what anesthesiologists do; they make sure the patient can’t feel any pain and is comfortable during surgery. Anesthesia is used in almost every single surgery. It is a numbing medicine that numbs the nerves and makes the body go unconscious. You can’t feel anything or move while under the sedative and are often delusional after being taken off of the anesthetic. Believe it or not, about roughly two hundred years ago doctors didn’t use anesthesia during surgery. It was rarely ever practiced. Patients could feel everything and were physically held down while being operated on. 2It wasn’t until 1846 that a dentist first used an anesthetic on a patient going into surgery and the practice spread and became popular (Anesthesia). To this day, advancements are still being made in anesthesiology. 7The more scientists learn about molecules and anesthetic side effects, the better ability to design agents that are more targeted, more effective and safer, with fewer side effects for the patients (Anesthesia). Technological advancements will make it easier to read vital life signs in a person and help better decide the specific dosages a person needs. Anesthesiologists have many responsibilities. 3They measure the patient’s temperature, pulse, heart rate, and breathing rate while under the sedative. They have... ... middle of paper ... ...le feel comfortable yet not feel any pain before, during, and after surgery requires much more responsibility than it sounds but in the end it is probably one of the most rewarding careers out there. Works Cited "American Society of Anesthesiologists." About ASA. American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA), n.d. Web. 23 Jan. 2014. "Anesthesia Fact Sheet." – National Institute of General Medical Sciences. U.S. Department of Health and Human Serviced, n.d. Web. 20 Jan. 2014. "Anesthesiologist." U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. U.S. Department of Labor, 8 Jan. 2014. Web. 14 Jan. 2014. "Anesthesiologists." The Oklahoma Career Information System (OKCIS). Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education, n.d. Web. 12 Jan. 2014. Bolster, Carole. "Anesthesiologists." Exploring Health Care Careers. Chicago: Ferguson Pub., 2002. 17-24. Print.
Have you ever wondered why you have no feeling during surgery? The reasoning behind this is a doctor called an anesthesiologist. For those who are wondering who they are and what they do, anesthesiologists are doctors who, after completing many years of school and training, work many hours to make sure patients feel no pain during surgery, and earn a good salary along with good benefits.
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Anesthesiologists are those that patients who have active DNR orders encounter quite often. 15 percent of their patients with do not resuscitate orders go to the operating room for procedures that are most of the time geared toward improving the quality of life (Kelley , 2014).
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An orthopedic surgeon must be creative. The body is like a sculpture. When someone breaks a bone and the orthopedic surgeon has to go in and fix the bone with pins, the surgeon sometimes has to be creative with the way they put the pin in and where they screw it down. An orthopedic surgeon must like to fix things (Ryan). Orthopedic surgeons are similar to construction workers. Both use drills, saws, hammers, nails or pins, and many other tools. An orthopedic must not be afraid of blood, bones, or loud noises. When asked if ever disgusted at the beginning of medical school, Dr. Ryan was q...
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Anesthesiologists take care of patients’ body signs while they are in surgery and also with their pain management during surgery (“Physicians” para. 10). During the surgery they give the patient anesthetics or drugs. These drugs help relieve pain the patient feels during their surgery or any other procedure (“Physicians” para. 10). They will also position the patient onto the operating table to make them feel comfortable and surgically accessible for surgery (“Anesthesiologist” What’s para. 1). Most use local, intravenous, spinal, or caudal methods to inject the anesthetic for sedation; the anesthesiologist prepares the patient for surgery (“Anesthesiologist” What’s para. 1). They record the types and amounts of amnesia used(“Anesthesiologist” What’s para. 1). They also watch over the patient’s body temperature, blood pressure, heart rate, and breathing rate (“Physicians” para. 10). After the procedure, they decide when the patient has recovered from the anesthetic and is able to go home (“Anesthesiologist” What’s para. 1). Anesthesiologists can ...
...k in a surgical environment, such as an operating room. They may also work in outpatient surgery centers or medical offices (Santiago, 2014). According to the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, employment of nurse anesthetists is expected to grow 31 percent from 2012 to 2022 ("Nurse Anesthetists, Nurse," 2014). Job opportunities for advanced practice registered nurses in general are expected to be in high demand. The most recent data are of May 2012, in which the median annual wage for nurse anesthetists in the United States was $96,460 ("Nurse Anesthetists, Nurse," 2014).
... Orthopedic surgeons are hardworking, intellectual, and caring individuals who continue to improve the lives of many who suffer from various breaks, tears, injuries, and diseases.
Everyday, people go through surgery and require a specialist that will monitor their surgery as well as give them what they need to be able to persevere the pain, which is exactly what anesthesiologists do. In order for the patients to be able to get into surgery and deal with the agonizing aches after the abscission, anesthesiologists have to give the sufferer the proper treatment before and after the surgery. Overall, anesthesiologists must be highly educated in both medicine and communication, they need to be able to give the patient the right amount of medicine as well as speak with the family of patients and other doctors to inform them all with what will be done during the surgery, and they need to be able to properly assist the surgeons during operations.
One those who have completed a program in general anesthesia or deep sedation through the Commission on Dental Accreditation can provide this type of care, and some practices now employ a dentist anesthesiologist for this reason. The dentist anesthesiologist undergoes training in every type of sedation for both adults and children.
On July 2020, I plan to start working a new career as a Nurse Anesthetist, this is very important to me because it has always been my goal to practice anesthesia, as it allows me to work in a higher level of nursing, and ensuring the patient pain are manage during certain medical procedures.
The idea of taking care of someone and providing assistance to a complete stranger is something not many people do. Seeing people at their worst, during a difficult, challenging and frightening moment of their life is not a job many people would take. However, being there for a person at their time of need is what captivates me the most. Nursing, a career I want to pursue and one that is on my to-do list. Being a nurse entails a lot of things; you must be strong, passionate, hardworking, and caring. Becoming a nurse is my ultimate career goal. In the long term a clear-cut decision would be to further continue my education and become an Nurse Anesthetist with a Master's degree.
It is very important that a patient is comfortable and can trust the nurse anesthetist before going under anesthesia. On the micro level, nurse anesthetists interact with patients and their families. There are face to face discussions between them pre and post operatively. It is pertinent that the nurse anesthetist is outgoing and easy to talk to so that the patient is not uncomfortable before going into surgery (Nurse Anesthetists). Some important symbols that nurse anesthetists represent are comfort, health, and trust. If a patient is uncomfortable or experiencing anxiety, it could result in an increased heart rate, an increase in blood pressure, and other health complications. Consequently, it is very important that nurse anesthetists come in with a positive attitude. The symbol of health is due to the life of that patient being in their hands. It is up to the nurse anesthetist to evaluate the patient at all times to ensure there is no harm or complications that result from the procedure. Trust is also an important symbol because a patient has to be able have confidence and trust that the nurse anesthetist treating them is experienced, knowledgeable, and competent in providing their care and performing all of their duties. If a patient does not trust the nurse anesthetist, it could result in the procedure having to be postponed in order to find another nurse
Attempts at anesthesia have been around since people have been preforming surgery, no matter how primitive. Early anesthetics were soporifics or narcotics, these dull the senses and induce sleep. A few of the early anesthetics were belladonna a type of plant, alcohol, marijuana, jimsonweed, mandrake, and opium. While all of these gave some pain relief, none of them guarantee sedation. There has also been attempts to use hypnosis to make people fall asleep. By the 1840’s there was two regularly used anesthetics, opium and alcohol. The only bad thing about both of these is they had negatives to go along with the positives. Two of these negatives were addiction, and neither of them could typically completely dull the pain. If you took doses big enough to get the full affect could just as easily kill you. But this all changed when Dr. William Morton soaked a sponge with ether and put it over his patient’s mouth and nose which made him unconscious. When the patient woke he said he had no memory of the surgery and felt no pain. This discovery changed the world of anesthetics forever.