Job Description
Limi Hospital Limited, founded in 1982, is a rapidly growing and renowned patient-centered multispecialty medicine based hospital located in the Central Business District of Abuja Metropolis that provides preventive, diagnostic and therapeutic evidence-based care by utilizing innovative cutting edge technology and well trained people who have a passion for people.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Consultant Anesthesiologist
Location: Abuja
Job Description
- We currently seek to recruit a Licensed Consultant Anesthesiologist who will be responsible to administer anesthetics prior to, during, or after surgery or other medical procedures.
Job Responsibilities
- Monitor patient before, during, and after anesthesia and counteract adverse reactions or complications.
- Monitor patient conditions during treatments, procedures, or activities.
- Record type and amount of anesthesia and patient condition throughout the procedure.
- Record patient medical histories.
- Provide and maintain life support and airway management and help prepare patients for emergency surgery.
- Implement advanced life support techniques.
- Prepare patients physically for medical procedures.
- Administer anesthetic or sedation during medical procedures, using local, intravenous, spinal, or caudal methods.Administer anesthetics or sedatives to control pain.
- Examine patients, obtain medical history, and use diagnostic tests to determine risk during surgical, obstetrical, and other medical procedures.
- Examine patients to assess general physical condition.
- Position patient on the operating table to maximize patient comfort and surgical accessibility.
- Position patients for treatment or examination.
- Coordinate administration of anesthetics with surgeons during operation.
- Collaborate with healthcare professionals to plan or provide treatment.
- Decide when patients have recovered or stabilized enough to be sent to another room or ward or to be sent home following outpatient surgery.
- Monitor patient progress or responses to treatments.
- Confer with other medical professionals to determine type and method of anesthetic or sedation to render patients insensible to pain.
- Collaborate with healthcare professionals to plan or provide treatment.
- Order laboratory tests, x-rays, and other diagnostic procedures.
- Order medical diagnostic or clinical tests.
- Inform students and staff of types and methods of anesthesia administration, signs of complications, and emergency methods to counteract reactions.Train medical providers.
- Provide medical care and consultation in many settings, prescribing medication and treatment, and referring patients for surgery.
- Refer patients to other healthcare practitioners or health resources.
- Prescribe treatments or therapies.
- Prescribe medications.
- Manage anesthesiological services, coordinating them with other medical activities, and formulating plans and procedures.
- Collaborate with healthcare professionals to plan or provide treatment.
- Direct healthcare delivery programs.
- Diagnose illnesses, using examinations, tests, and reports.
- Diagnose medical conditions.
- Coordinate and direct the work of nurses, medical technicians, and other health care providers.
- Supervise patient care personnel.
- Schedule and maintain the use of the surgical suite, including operating, wash-up, waiting rooms, and anesthetic and sterilizing equipment.
- Schedule medical facility use.
- Instruct individuals and groups on ways to preserve health and prevent disease.
- Provide health and wellness advice to patients, program participants, or caregivers.
- Conduct medical research to aid in controlling and curing disease, to investigate new medications, and to develop and test new medical techniques.
- Conduct research to increase knowledge about medical issues.
Qualifications
- Doctor of Medicine Degree with anesthesiology residency
- Minimum of three years of experience as an anesthesiologist
- Board-certified in anesthesiology
- Skilled at epidurals, spinals and ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia (not sure this is required)
- Ability to stand for long periods of time
Application Closing Date
20th June, 2021.