Amarilis Nunez

• Prepare and maintain patient monitoring devices and anesthesia delivery systems pre, intra, and post anesthesia.
• Takes into consideration age-specific issues to meet the needs of the various patient groups.
• Cleans, organizes, and maintains anesthesia workroom, supplies, and equipment.
• Assists with transport of patients and laboratory specimens.

• Assisted the licensed anesthesia providers in various settings that included but are not limited to surgical operating rooms, Interventional Radiology, Radiation Oncology, and Magnetic Resonance Imagining with patients of all age ranges.

• Provided support for routine surgical cases by assisting in the preparation and maintenance of patient equipment and anesthesia delivery systems before, during and after anesthesia.

• As the first point-of-contact, performed high level maintenance on anesthesia equipment.

• Clean,d sterilized, disinfected, stocked, ordered and maintained the routine anesthesia equipment and supplies.

• Assisted the licensed nursing staff in the preoperative area with preparation and placement of IV lines on patients.

• Prepared all appropriate supplies and equipment for surgical, diagnostic, obstetrical, trauma, and transplant cases; connects appropriate gas hoses, mass spectrometry and suction components; assemble and prepare necessary airway and intubating equipment; assemble and prepare (sterile) intravenous solutions and other invasive lines (arterial, central venous pressure, and Swan-Ganz lines); possess working knowledge of sterile technique; perform sterile skin prep and drape for physician.

• Prepared procedure trays for arterial line, CVP, Swan-Ganz and routine intravenous lines; prepare and hand equipment and supplies; assemble and prepare transducers and equipment for cardiac output.

• Positioned patients during anesthetic administration, provide supplies and monitor equipment to start and place invasive lines; assist during induction/intubation by applying tracheal pressure; place monitoring equipment on patients.

• Evaluated, troubleshoot, and performed emergency repairs on anesthesia equipment during surgery; maintain and service electronic and mechanical equipment used by Anesthesia department in accordance with departmental standards including unit testing, calibrating, cleaning, refurbishing, disassembly, and reassembly to ensure immediate availability.

• Checked, calibrated, zero balanced, and assured proper function of appropriate equipment (e.g., oxygen analyzers, pulse oximeters and mass spectrometer, Arterial/Pulmonary artery monitors, EKG, temperature, blood pressure and transcutaneous monitors, pressure infuser pumps, blood and fluid warmers).

• In conjunction with department administrative staff, identified all equipment within department with appropriate label; assist in tracking patient charges; file anesthesia records; inventory supplies; work with central supply department to assist in re-evaluating stock levels of supplies and equipment.

• Assisted licensed anesthesia providers in the acquisition, preparation, and application of the equipment and supplies required for the administration of anesthesia to patients.

• Prepared and maintained patient monitoring devices (ultrasound equipment, Glide scopes, bronchoscopes) and restocked supplies in the Anesthesia workroom and operating rooms.

• Provided support (in intubation, insertion of IVs for blood/fluid warmers, arterial lines, and placement of central lines) in anesthesia for routine and complex surgical cases.

• Performed anesthesia machine maintenance and servicing (cleaning, sterilizing, assembly, calibrating, and testing) before and after anesthesia administration.

• Assisted licensed anesthesia providers in the acquisition, preparation, and application of the equipment and supplies required for the administration of anesthesia to patients.

• Prepared and maintained patient monitoring devices (Belmont RI, ultrasound equipment, Glide scopes, bronchoscopes) and anesthesia delivery systems, before, during, and after anesthesia.

• Prepared and assisted anesthesia providers with nerve blocks and central venous catheter Teleflex Arrow International brand kits in a sterile environment.