An anaesthesiologist is required to do the work of a deity for the patients. It requires monitoring the history and condition of the patient during an operation or any other medical procedure. An anaesthesiologist has to be an excellent communicator in the sense that he has to absorb the patient in small talk and ask questions in order to break the ice and make the patient comfortable; at the same time administering the anestesia on the patient and when the patient is unconscious or the local anesthesia has taken effect the anaesthesiologist has to change focus to the vital signs on the monitor or the injury of the patient like the heart beat, blood pressure etc. . Then he has to work in coordination with the other doctors. Then after the operation the anaesthesiologist needs to keep in touch with the patient’s recovery process too.
Hence, from the above we can conclude that an anaesthesiologist is required to have an expertise not only in administering the anestesia but also have know-how about the equipments, reading the bio-physical signs, lab apparatus. They are required to have an ability to make sharp decisions in the case of an emergency. So an anaesthesiologist needs to be an all rounder in the field of medicine besides his area of proficiency.
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