The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 6, 2025

The operating room team today consists of multiple professionals working in collaboration, including the surgeon, the scrub tech, the circulating nurse, and the anesthesia MD or CRNA. This image of operating room hierarchy has disappeared since the 1940s. These members, each competent in his or her own right, work together as a team.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Will it be a nurse or will it be a physician? At times, physician anesthesiologists employ certified registered nurse anesthetists (CRNAs) to assist them in what is called the anesthesia care team (ACT) model. All the responsibility in the ACT model resides with the supervising MD anesthesiologist. No, they are not.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JULY 12, 2021

Anesthesiologists could chat with the surgeons and/or nurses, make an occasional phone call, and at times read materials they brought with them into the operating room. Vigilance regarding a sleeping patient’s vital signs was always paramount, but the constant effort to be vigilant could be mind-numbing.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

In an anesthesia care team, a physician anesthesiologist supervises up to four operating rooms and each operating room is staffed with a certified registered nurse anesthetist (CRNA). In a university hospital, a faculty member may supervise two operating rooms each with a resident anesthesiologist-in-training in attendance.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Will your anesthesia professional be a physician anesthesiologist, a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA), or an anesthesia care team made up of both? If an anesthesia care team is attending to you, how many rooms is each physician anesthesiologist supervising?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

AUGUST 16, 2018

Have the Stanford Emergency Manual 5 in your operating room suite, and ask a registered nurse to recite the Cognitive Aid Checklist for HYPOXEMIA to you, to make sure you haven’t missed something. If an anesthesia care team is attending to you, how many rooms is each physician anesthesiologist supervising?

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PANA

JANUARY 20, 2025

20, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Certified registered nurse anesthetists (CRNAs) are usually the last person a patient sees before a surgical procedure begins, and the first person they awake to when it ends. As the hands-on providers of anesthesia, CRNAs are with their patients throughout the entire medical procedure. HARRISBURG, Pa.,

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

At Stanford every nurse, doctor, and janitor knew my name. Nico, I want you to meet Bobby Dylan, our Director of Nurse Anesthesia,” Perpich said. The nurse anesthetist ignored Perpich’s cordial introduction and said nothing to me. He was only a nurse anesthetist. So the rest of the anesthesia staff is all nurses?” “Yep.

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