Anesthesiologist Assistants
Assist anesthesiologists in the administration of anesthesia for surgical and non-surgical procedures. Monitor patient status and provide patient care during surgical treatment.
$135,880 a year (for the broader BLS group this job sits in).
of the working time. Estimate.
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Measured, from Anthropic's usage data (2025). Counts help on part of a task.
On the chosen pace and reliability. Estimate.
Share of the working time within reach, now to 2030
What each choice means: , , , , . Every pace starts from .
At this date and pace, models finish tasks up to 4.4 h long four times in five.
How far this has come
With GPT-4, measured in March 2023, 0% of this job's working time was within reach at . With Claude 3.7 Sonnet, measured in February 2025, 0%. With Claude Mythos Preview (early), measured in April 2026, 6%. Today's estimate: 6%.
A backcast: today's task data with the best model METR had measured by each date. It shows how fast the models have moved, not what anyone forecast at the time.
The tasks
Sorted by . 16 tasks from .
| Task | Kind | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Control anesthesia levels during procedures.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 26% | 50 min13 min to 3.3 h | Stays with people | |
| 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.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 25% | 50 min13 min to 2.5 h | Stays with people | |
| Provide clinical instruction, supervision or training to staff in areas such as anesthesia practices.Done more than weekly by most who do it. | 7% | 50 min25 min to 1.7 h | Stays with people | |
| Administer anesthetic, adjuvant, or accessory drugs under the direction of an anesthesiologist.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 6% | 13 min4 min to 38 min | Stays with people | |
| Provide airway management interventions including tracheal intubation, fiber optics, or ventilary support.Done several times a day by most who do it. | 5% | 17 min8 min to 38 min | Stays with people | |
| Collect and document patients' pre-anesthetic health histories.Done several times a day by most who do it. | 5% | 25 min13 min to 42 min | 100%Half by now | |
| Monitor and document patients' progress during post-anesthesia period.Done several times a day by most who do it. | 5% | 25 min13 min to 50 min | Stays with people | |
| Administer blood, blood products, or supportive fluids.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 5% | 17 min8 min to 50 min | Stays with people | |
| Verify availability of operating room supplies, medications, and gases.Done several times a day by most who do it. | 4% | 17 min8 min to 25 min | Stays with people | |
| Pretest and calibrate anesthesia delivery systems and monitors.Done daily by most who do it. | 3% | 25 min13 min to 38 min | Stays with people | |
| Assist anesthesiologists in performing anesthetic procedures, such as epidural or spinal injections.Done more than monthly by most who do it. | 3% | 25 min13 min to 50 min | Stays with people | |
| Assist in the provision of advanced life support techniques including those procedures using high frequency ventilation or intra-arterial cardiovascular assistance devices.Done more than yearly by most who do it. | 2% | 38 min17 min to 1.7 h | Stays with people |
Within reach, per task: the share of the task's time whose instances are short enough for a model to finish at the chosen date, pace and reliability. Half by: the date half of that time comes within reach.
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