Welcome to the pages of the Anesthesia Functional Service. One thing first: since 2015, we have been increasingly supported by the professional group of anesthesia technical assistants (ATA). This is a great stroke of luck for us, as the shortage of nursing staff has also reached us. In practice, both professions carry out identical activities.

Our team is growing steadily and we now have over 125 full-time and part-time employees. They work at various times, including late and night shifts in the recovery rooms. We also provide on-call duty and standby duty to meet all the requirements of operating theater operations. Furthermore, we offer working hours adapted to your personal situation by individual arrangement (family-friendly university).

Our field of application includes the central OR with the specialist disciplines: Cardiac, thoracic, transplant and vascular surgery as well as trauma surgery, urology, plastic, hand and reconstructive surgery, neurosurgery, ophthalmology and ear, nose and throat medicine. Anesthesiological care is also provided in the Central Emergency Room, the entire polyclinic areas, the operating theatre area of the children's clinic, the children's cardiac catheterization laboratory and in dermatology. Finally, anesthesiological care is also provided in other buildings on the campus in the areas of oral and maxillofacial surgery, gynecology and obstetrics, including the delivery room, as well as general, visceral and transplant surgery.

• This means that we are responsible for around 100 possible anesthesia workstations and 4 recovery rooms.

Working with patients of all ages with the widest possible range of illnesses, in so many different specialist medical areas, with the correspondingly different rooms and work processes, requires a high degree of flexibility, commitment, experience and competence from our staff.

For this reason, we offer the possibility of specialist training in intensive care and anesthesia care. It is desirable that as many nursing staff as possible complete this further training.
Similarly, we are working on the further qualification of our ATAs in order to offer professional training prospects here too.

First and foremost, the ordering, storage and preparation of medical devices and medicines should be mentioned here. We are also responsible for preparing all the medication, endotracheal tubes, catheters, probes, etc. required for the individual patient.