Major Responsibilities/Essential Functions: Some of the important generalized work activities Anesthesiologists may perform include: Administers anesthetics to render patients insensible to pain during surgical and other medical procedures; examines patients to determine the degree of surgical risk and type of anesthetic and sedation to administer and discusses findings with medical practitioners concerned with the case. To provide monitored anesthesia care, general and regional anesthesia for adult and pediatric patients, including perioperative critical care, acute pain management, and continuous epidural anesthetic administration, as well as procedural sedation, the Anesthesiologist must be able to perform the following procedures: