Anesthesia Assistant, Operating Room

at  Peterborough Regional Health Centre

Anesthesia Assistants (AA) are health care professionals that are specially trained to provide anesthesia care to stable surgical patients under supervision and immediate availability of an anesthesiologist. The Anesthesia Assistant (AA) will provide technical and clinical assistance to the anesthesiologist. This will include assistance in a block room and with inductions within the OR. For day to day supervision, the AA is directly accountable to the Anesthesiologist assigned to the surgical case. The scope of practice of the AA is defined by their own professional standards and by the scope of the supervising anesthesiologist. This role is an expanded role of the RRT and requires completion of a post graduate anesthesia assistant certification program.