Anesthesia - Other Personnel

Other Personnel

Further information: Anaesthetic technician, Biomedical Equipment Technician, and Surgical technologist

Anesthesia technicians are specially trained Anaesthetic Assistants,equivalent to Operating Department Practitioners in Great Britain. They do not administer anesthesia, but rather they assist anesthesia providers similar to the way in which scrub technicians assist surgeons. Commonly these services are collectively called perioperative services, and thus the term perioperative service technician (PST) is used interchangeably with anesthesia technician. In the United States, an anesthesia technician can become a Certified Anesthesia Technician (Cer.A.T.), followed by becoming a Certified Anesthesia Technologist (Cer.A.T.T.) through American Society of Anesthesia Technologists & Technicians (ASATT). In New Zealand, an anesthetic technician completes a course of study recognized by the New Zealand Anaesthetic Technicians Society.