In the complex field of medicine, different professions specialize in a variety of procedures, but one of the most important fields in medicine is Anesthesiology. Anesthesiology is the study of anesthetics to be used in a medical procedure. Even though this branch of medicine is primarily occupied by nurse anesthetists, the doctors who specialize in this certain field are anesthesiologists. Without the anesthesiologist many operational procedures would be too dangerous for a nurse anesthetist to perform. The anesthesiologist is an important part of preoperative procedures and the operating room.
An anesthesiologist is a doctor that specializes in anesthesia care, critical care medicine, and pain management(American Society of Anesthesiologists). These doctors also possess the knowledge to understand and treat the human body . This expertise however, is required to have fourteen years of education and over twelve-thousand hours of clinical training. It is the anesthesiologist that evaluates and monitors patients before, during, and after surgical procedures and provide the appropriate anesthetic needed. A physician anesthesiologist also provides different types of anesthetics depending on the procedure that is about to be performed. Some of these anesthetics include general anesthesia, regional anesthesia, and …show more content…
Even though these doctors specialize in anesthesia they also do tasks that help the operating room can perform in peak efficiency. With the anesthesiologists intimate knowledge in anesthesiology surgical procedures can be performed with minimum risk to the patient. Without the anesthesiologist medical procedures would be too dangerous to be done or would be too unpredictable. Therefore an anesthesiologist is an integral part of the medical field or in any hospital or clinical