Verify availability of operating room supplies, medications, and gases.

“Verify availability of operating room supplies, medications, and gases.” is a core task performed by Anesthesiologist Assistants. Among the occupation's 16 rated tasks, workers place it 9th by importance (#8 most important). About 100% of workers say it is relevant to their job.

This is a single occupation-specific task statement from O*NET. The figures below describe how central the task is to the job and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the task will be automated.

Work activities this task rolls up to

O*NET groups concrete tasks into broader work activities shared across many occupations.

• Replenish inventories of materials, equipment, or products. in Monitoring and Controlling Resources

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E2. Exposure with tools — software built on top of a language model (not the model alone) could cut the time by at least half.

Exposure measures whether a model could meaningfully speed the task up — it is an estimate of overlap with model capabilities, not a measure of whether the work will be done by software. The study's intermediate score (β) for this task is 0.50. Automation potential label: T3.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Control anesthesia levels during procedures. · importance 4.9
• Assist anesthesiologists in monitoring of patients, including electrocardiogram (EKG), direct arterial pressure, central venous pressure, arterial blood gas, hematocrit, or routine measurement of temperature, respiration, blood pressure or heart rate. · importance 4.8
• Provide airway management interventions including tracheal intubation, fiber optics, or ventilary support. · importance 4.7
• Respond to emergency situations by providing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), basic cardiac life support (BLS), advanced cardiac life support (ACLS), or pediatric advanced life support (PALS). · importance 4.7
• Administer blood, blood products, or supportive fluids. · importance 4.7
• Collect and document patients' pre-anesthetic health histories. · importance 4.6
• Assist in the provision of advanced life support techniques including those procedures using high frequency ventilation or intra-arterial cardiovascular assistance devices. · importance 4.6
• Pretest and calibrate anesthesia delivery systems and monitors. · importance 4.5
• Monitor and document patients' progress during post-anesthesia period. · importance 4.3
• Administer anesthetic, adjuvant, or accessory drugs under the direction of an anesthesiologist. · importance 4.2
• Assist anesthesiologists in performing anesthetic procedures, such as epidural or spinal injections. · importance 4.1
• Provide clinical instruction, supervision or training to staff in areas such as anesthesia practices. · importance 4.0
• Assist in the application of monitoring techniques, such as pulmonary artery catheterization, electroencephalographic spectral analysis, echocardiography, or evoked potentials. · importance 3.9
• Collect samples or specimens for diagnostic testing. · importance 3.9

See all tasks on the Anesthesiologist Assistants page.

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

@misc{singulariki-task-17296,
  title  = {Verify availability of operating room supplies, medications, and gases.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/tasks/task-17296}
}