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O*NET detailed work activityAdminister anesthetics or sedatives to control pain
Stays humanHands-on care
10 jobs12 tasks
Physical care and clinical work need trained hands, close observation and a person who is accountable at the bedside or chairside.
Part of Administer basic health care or medical treatments, under the O*NET work activity group Assisting and Caring for Others. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 12 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Administer anesthetic, adjuvant, or accessory drugs under the direction of an anesthesiologist.
- Administer general and local anesthetics.
- Administer anesthetics to limit the amount of pain experienced by patients during procedures.
- Administer anesthetic or sedation during medical procedures, using local, intravenous, spinal, or caudal methods.
- Manage patients' pain relief and sedation by providing pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic interventions, monitoring patients' responses, and changing care plans accordingly.
- Perform or manage regional anesthetic techniques, such as local, spinal, epidural, caudal, nerve blocks and intravenous blocks.
- Administer local anesthetic agents.
- Administer local, inhalation, intravenous, or other anesthetics.
- Postoperatively inject a subcutaneous local anesthetic agent to reduce pain.
Tasks where it is part of the work
- Prepare prescribed solutions and administer local, intravenous, spinal, or other anesthetics, following specified methods and procedures.
- Administer anesthesia to animals, under the direction of a veterinarian, and monitor animals' responses to anesthetics so that dosages can be adjusted.
- Assist anesthesiologists in performing anesthetic procedures, such as epidural or spinal injections.