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One day in the life of an anesthesiologist - resuscitator.

I want to say right away that I am not a master of writing posts - my job is to treat people. But I will try to convey to you what a doctor of my profession lives by.

The anesthesiologist's working day begins with the evening of the previous day – with the examination of patients. We are planning an operating day for tomorrow, getting to know the patient. This is a difficult specialty in terms of multidisciplinarity, because a good anesthesiologist is not only medical knowledge in the field of therapy, surgery, cardiology, neurology, etc., but also a good psychologist who can win the patient's trust. The patient's trust is a quarter of the success of planned anesthesia.

The next day at 8 o'clock in the morning, a bypass is carried out, a shift is transferred, further work is planned together with colleagues, an operational day. After the end of the operating day – examination of patients, and so on.

Difficulties of work: "hardening" of character, extreme conditions and not only intubation

The specifics of our work is that you always need to navigate quickly enough in an emergency situation and quickly, and most importantly, make the right decision. This leaves its mark: as they write in the literature on medical psychology, the highest risk of professional burnout is among anesthesiologists. And it really is.

Among anesthesiologists, it is rare to meet overly emotional people – mostly they are balanced personalities. Because it is impossible to make the right decision on emotions and calmly provide assistance.

Let's be honest: we know very little about anesthesiologists-resuscitators. Even the very name of the specialty is seen by many in this version for the first time. More often we are sure that there is a certain anesthesiologist who is needed in order to "do anesthesia".

Meanwhile, despite the common misconception, the functions of anesthesiologists-resuscitators are much broader. Often, despite the competent work of a specialist, the disease becomes uncontrollable, and the patient, regardless of the diagnosis, may fall into a critical condition. And whatever he is ill with, the only one who will save him is the resuscitator. And only when he stabilizes the patient, removes him from a critical condition and restores the mechanisms of autoregulation, the attending physician will take over the patient again.

So it turns out that, despite the usual opinion of the layman, general anesthesia is only a small part of the work of an anesthesiologist-resuscitator. Of course, surgeons cannot do without anesthesiologists, because any operation involves the impact of aggressive surgical methods, in which the patient is in critical condition and simply will not survive without the protection of anesthesia.

That is why, contrary to the prevailing stereotype, permission for any surgical intervention is given not by a surgeon, but by an anesthesiologist. It is he who decides whether it is possible to carry out surgical manipulations on the patient in the current state, it is with his actions that any operation begins and ends with his actions. And he also leads the patient to complete stabilization of the condition in the postoperative period.

What inspires an anesthesiologist

Inspires the result. When you see a person "disassembled" for "spare parts", with some serious injury, or severe, life-threatening pathology, and then once and a person as a result of the work of the entire staff of the intensive care unit is transferred to the specialized department and says "thank you!" – this is the result.

In conclusion, I want to say one thing - take care of yourself and your health. But never forget about those who save people's lives.
Many thanks to everyone who took the time to read my post.