Duty as a clinical engineer |
Equipment maintenance and management unrelated to anesthesia care (e.g., syringe pump maintenance in the general ward), conference between CEs, CHDF priming, PMX circuit assembly, ventilator maintenance, blood gas analysis assistance, respiratory settings in the ICU |
No |
Conferences |
Pre-anesthesia conferences, joint conferences with other departments, on behalf of anesthesiologists |
Yes |
Equipment maintenance |
Equipment maintenance and management related to anesthesia practice (e.g., transesophageal echocardiography and fiberoptic bronchoscopy) |
Yes |
Anesthesia preparation |
Preparation of airway devices (e.g., endotracheal tubes, laryngoscope, or video laryngoscopes), assembly of pressure lines, preparation of CV catheters, pre-use anesthesia machine checking, setting of monitors, preparation of anesthetic drugs |
Yes |
Documents |
Filling case summary for submission to JSA, storage of intraoperative images (TEE, etc.) |
Yes |
Anesthesia assistance |
Anesthesia management in the presence of attending anesthesiologists (e.g., completing the electronic anesthetic record, preparing a drug, and adjusting sonography settings) troubleshooting of biomedical equipment during anesthesia |
Yes |
Sole anesthesia monitoring |
Sole monitoring in the absence of an anesthesiologist when the vital signs are stable during surgery |
Yes |
Others |
Handing out arterial blood sampling and reporting the results, teaching residents and students |
Yes |