CRNA In-Procedure Supervision 
Nashville Anesthesia Professionals
JUNE 3, 2024
There are four classes of APRNs: certified nurse midwife (CNM), clinical nurse specialist (CNS), certified nurse practitioner (CNP), and certified registered nurse anesthetist (CRNA). Though all APRNs undergo extensive training to achieve their advanced degree, each type obtains a different skillset, with CRNAs focused on anesthesia care.
The Anesthesia Consultant
SEPTEMBER 23, 2024
The regulation of the number of MD residency and CRNA training positions, and the duration of time required to train new professionals, impede the ability to rapidly increase the supply of clinicians entering the workforce. This will require an operating room staffed with a surgeon, a nurse, a scrub technician, and an anesthesia professional.
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The Anesthesia Consultant
SEPTEMBER 3, 2021
A 2013 study in Anesthesiology states, “Despite the fact that a surgical procedure may have been performed for the appropriate indication and in a technically perfect manner, patients are threatened by perioperative organ injury. All the responsibility in the ACT model resides with the supervising MD anesthesiologist.
The Anesthesia Consultant
JULY 12, 2021
In anesthesia care team models, in which a Certified Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA) is physically present in the operating room while being supervised by an attending physician anesthesiologist, the MD anesthesiologist can be summoned to return to the operating room in seconds if a problem arises. Love it or hate it, the EMR is here to stay.
The Anesthesia Consultant
OCTOBER 8, 2019
In contrast, other operating room professionals are usually relaxed and winding down at this time, because the surgical procedure is finished. preparing to remove an endotracheal tube from a patient Every general anesthetic has risk. In the immortal words of Forrest Gump, “Sh*t happens.” Extubation is risky business.
The Anesthesia Consultant
FEBRUARY 16, 2021
The first surgery today is a procedure devised to treat obstructive sleep apnea, a procedure called a maxillary-mandibular osteotomy. The first surgery today is a procedure devised to treat obstructive sleep apnea, a procedure called a maxillary-mandibular osteotomy. You leave your street clothes in your locker.
The Anesthesia Consultant
AUGUST 16, 2018
Anoxic brain injury. These three words make any anesthesiologist cringe. In layman’s terms, anoxic brain injury, or anoxic encephalopathy, means “the brain is deprived of oxygen.” In an anesthetic disaster the brain can be deprived of oxygen. Without oxygen, brain cells die, and once they die they do not regenerate.
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