Coordinate with anesthesia personnel to maintain patient temperature.

“Coordinate with anesthesia personnel to maintain patient temperature.” is a core task performed by Surgical Assistants. Among the occupation's 28 rated tasks, workers place it 7th by importance (#22 most important). About 70% 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.

• Confer with healthcare or other professionals about patient care. in Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E0. No direct exposure — current language models give little or no time savings on this task.

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 0.00. Automation potential label: T1.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Verify the identity of patient or operative site. · importance 5.0
• Monitor and maintain aseptic technique throughout procedures. · importance 4.9
• Coordinate or participate in the positioning of patients, using body stabilizing equipment or protective padding to provide appropriate exposure for the procedure or to protect against nerve damage or circulation impairment. · importance 4.7
• Cover patients with surgical drapes to create and maintain a sterile operative field. · importance 4.7
• Maintain an unobstructed operative field, using surgical retractors, sponges, or suctioning and irrigating equipment. · importance 4.7
• Apply sutures, staples, clips, or other materials to close skin, facia, or subcutaneous wound layers. · importance 4.7
• Prepare and apply sterile wound dressings. · importance 4.7
• Discuss with surgeon the nature of the surgical procedure, including operative consent, methods of operative exposure, diagnostic or laboratory data, or patient-advanced directives or other needs. · importance 4.6
• Determine availability of necessary equipment or supplies for operative procedures. · importance 4.6
• Clamp, ligate, or cauterize blood vessels to control bleeding during surgical entry, using hemostatic clamps, suture ligatures, or electrocautery equipment. · importance 4.6
• Assess skin integrity or other body conditions upon completion of the procedure to determine if damage has occurred from body positioning. · importance 4.5
• Assist with patient resuscitation during cardiac arrest or other life-threatening events. · importance 4.5
• Obtain or inspect sterile or non-sterile surgical equipment, instruments, or supplies. · importance 4.5
• Operate sterilizing devices. · importance 4.5

See all tasks on the Surgical 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-19295,
  title  = {Coordinate with anesthesia personnel to maintain patient temperature.},
  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-19295}
}