More info: anesthetist.org Anesthesiologist assistants are highly skilled professionals who work with the direction of licensed anesthesiologists (specialist physicians) and as part of anesthesia care team to design and implement anesthesia care plans. They accompany the patient before, during and after anesthesia to ensure quality and continuity of care. Some daily duties are airway management, placement of intravenous catheters and arterial lines, pain and blood pressure management during the operative period. These are just a few things that we do! Anesthesiologists have safely and effectively delivered anesthesia care with either a certified anesthesiologist assistant or nurse anesthetist in an anesthesia care team model. It is the position of ASA that both certified anesthesiologist assistants and nurse anesthetists have identical patient care responsibilities and technical capabilities – a view in harmony with their equivalent treatment under the Medicare Progr...