Nurse Anesthetist Patient Care Supervision 
The Anesthesia Consultant
JUNE 26, 2022
What’s the difference between a physician anesthesiologist and a nurse anesthetist? There is no fork in the career path that makes a busy Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA) automatically inferior to a medical doctor anesthesiologist in hands-on skills. The answer: internal medicine.
Concordia Anesthesiology
AUGUST 30, 2021
The benefits of this model are that there are fewer providers involved and less supervision needed. Anesthesia Care Team (ACT) This model incorporates a physician anesthesiologist who supervises CRNAs (certified registered nurse anesthetists), with resident physicians-in-training who ultimately administer the anesthetics.
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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.
The Anesthesia Consultant
AUGUST 16, 2018
When a bad outcome like this occurs in a hospital or surgery center, a facility’s Quality Assurance Committee examines the details of the case—not to assign blame—but to identify flaws in patient care systems which must be improved in the future.
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