First crop of graduates from TRU’s accelerated anesthesia assistant program set to work in local operating rooms
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KAMLOOPS — The first eight Interior Health graduates from Thompson Rivers University’s (TRU) accelerated anesthesia assistant program will be working in operating rooms within the health authority.
TRU says the eight participants in the 11-month, full-time post-diploma program were sponsored by their work sites – including Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops – and will work there for at least one year as a return of service. The eight graduates were respiratory therapy clinicians.
In a news release issued Tuesday (Oct. 22), TRU says the program was supported by John Patton, Interior Health’s anesthesia assistant clinical instructor, as part of a partnership between the university and the health authority.
“Working as a registered respiratory therapist has contributed to my learning progression, but I had no idea that the scope of the anesthesia assistant was so broad: cell saver, massive transfusion, sed-line monitoring for depth of anesthesia and so much more,” Shannon Lindsay, a trainee, states.
