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.

“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.” is a supplemental task performed by Anesthesiologist Assistants. Among the occupation's 16 rated tasks, workers place it 15th by importance (#2 most important). About 65% 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.

• Monitor health conditions of humans or animals. in Monitoring Processes, Materials, or Surroundings
• Assist healthcare practitioners during medical procedures. in Assisting and Caring for Others

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: T1.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Control anesthesia levels during procedures. · importance 4.9
• 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
• Verify availability of operating room supplies, medications, and gases. · importance 4.5
• 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.

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  title  = {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.},
  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-17305}
}