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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
anesthesiologist
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ By now she was probably telling them she was an anesthesiologist.
▪ The doctor nods to the anesthesiologist, and suddenly things be-come very distant.
▪ The relationship of the internist, the surgeon, and the anesthesiologist is one example.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
anesthesiologist

alternative spelling of anaesthesiologist (q.v.). See ae.

Wiktionary
anesthesiologist

alt. (label en American spelling) A physician who specializes in anesthesiology and administers anesthesia. n. (label en American spelling) A physician who specializes in anesthesiology and administers anesthesia.

WordNet
anesthesiologist

n. a specialist who administers an anesthetic to a patient before he is treated [syn: anesthetist, anaesthetist]

Wikipedia
Anesthesiologist

An anesthesiologist ( American English) or anaesthetist ( British English) is a physician trained in anesthesia and perioperative medicine.

Terminology varies between countries. In the United States, the term anesthesiologist refers to a physician who has completed an accredited residency program in anesthesiology after medical school training, while the term anesthetist is used for nurse anesthesia providers who have completed a four-year bachelor's degree in nursing and then have a minimum of one year in critical care before completing a Masters or Practice Doctorate Degree specializing in anesthesia. By contrast, in the UK, most former Commonwealth countries and in Europe, the word anaesthetist is used to refer only to physicians, while their assistants may be termed anaesthetic nurses, anaesthetic technicians, operating department practitioners or physician associates depending on local practice.

Anaesthetists provide medical care to patients in a wide variety of (usually acute) situations, including preoperative evaluation, consultation with the surgical team, creation of a plan for the anesthesia tailored to each individual patient, airway management, intraoperative life support and provision of pain control, intraoperative diagnostic stabilisation, proper post-operative management of patients. Outside the operating room, an anaesthetist's spectrum of action includes with in-hospital and pre-hospital emergencies, intensive care units, acute pain units and chronic pain consultations. Because anaesthetists are physicians, in contrast to other anesthesia providers, they are able to utilize their extensive knowledge of physiology, pharmacology and diseases to guide their decision making.

In the USA, there has been a shortage of anaesthetists historically. In order to better serve the population, residency positions in anaesthesia for physicians have been steadily increasing the past several years. In addition, US physicians supervise ACTs, or Anesthesia Care Teams, which are composed of a supervising physician with several certified registered nurse anesthetists ( CRNAs) or Anesthesiologist Assistants (AAs). In other areas of the USA, anaesthetists work in what is deemed a "solo" or " MD/ DO only" practice, during which they provide anesthesia in a "one on one" relationship with the patient. In many areas of the country, CRNAs work independent of an anaesthetist.

Usage examples of "anesthesiologist".

Specifically, he and an anesthesiologist named Hameroff argue that quantum superposition of isolated electrons in the microtubules of brain cells creates the phenomenon of consciousness.

He seemed to slump in the middle of one of his cheerful waves at the crowd, and the anesthesiologists gently eased him to a prone position.

Just that day, Doherty, one of the anesthesiologists, had had the nerve to criticize Trent in front of several nurses.

The anesthesiologist, an Indian woman, came in and ran a needle into his arm, prepared an injection, fitted it into the tube connected to the needle.

She had no intention of cutting the patient until the anesthesiologist completed the intubation.

But what in the world was a heart anesthesiologist doing in maternity?

So what was a heart anesthesiologist doing with a pregnant patient in labor and delivery?

When was the last time we had a heart anesthesiologist up in OB, doing a section no less?

An anesthesiologist turned a valve and knocked him the rest of the way out.

Then, as the face grew gray with pain, the anesthesiologist pushed a plunger attached to an IV line, mercifully putting the clone under again.

Her anesthesiologist, a nurse, and a corpsman had all been killed while assisting her in the operating theater.

The anesthesiologist started to ask what the problem was, but before he finished the question, Harry returned to work.

The anesthesiologist told Thomas that the patient had suffered a dissecting aneurysm following a catheterization.

As he moved and spoke, Baudelio seemed transformed from his normal gaunt and ghostlike self to the teacher and practicing anesthesiologist he had once been.

Later, as an anesthesiologist, he watched hundreds of incisions being stitched.