Alexandra K. Kukurba

• Administered anesthesia for diverse surgical procedures at a leading trauma healthcare facility.
• Collaborated with surgeons and medical teams to develop anesthetic plans.
• Evaluated patient medical histories to assess anesthesia risks effectively.
• Utilized advanced monitoring equipment during surgeries for real-time assessments.
• Proficient in procedures and anesthetic management of high-risk parturient patients.

Trained in settings with diverse patient populations at 12 hospitals across the Western Region (California, Arizona, and Hawaii).

Specialty Rotations

• Non-Operating Room Anesthesia: Loma Linda University Medical Center 01/2022
• Obstetric Anesthesia: Kern Medical Center (Bakersfield, CA), 02/2022.
• Trauma: Riverside University Health System Medical Center (Riverside, CA), 03-04/2022.
• Neurosurgery: KP Los Angeles Medical Center, 08/2022.
• Pediatric: Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, 09-10/2022.
• Regional Anesthesia: Kern Medical Center (Bakersfield, CA), 12/2022.
• Cardiac Surgery: KP Fontana Medical Center – Fontana, CA, 01/2023. Additional cardiac experience at Mountain Vista, Mesa, AZ.

• Hemodynamic monitoring and management as well as fluid resuscitation during initial critical burn phase.
• Sedation and pain management during debridement and dressing changes.

• Responsible for assessment, care and multidisciplinary collaboration of critically ill patients (medical, surgical and cardiac).
• Proficient with the administration and titration of vasoactive, inotropic, analgesics and sedative medications.
• Management of patients requiring continuous cardiac monitoring, ventilator therapy, and renal replacement therapy.

• Responsible for assessment, care, and documentation of patients in the surgical stepdown care unit. Floor Nurse and Charge Nurse, and Precepting of new hires and new graduate nurses. Unit Based Council Chair.

• Assisted with stereotaxic procedures and anesthetic administration to mice
• Collection and analyzation of mice behavioral data.