General Anesthesia Nurse Surgical Device 
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. Surgeons do not control anesthesiologists, surgeons do not prescribe the anesthesia plan, and surgeons do not manage anesthesia complications.
The Anesthesia Consultant
NOVEMBER 13, 2019
In the 1990s, John Freund negotiated an option to acquire SRI’s intellectual property, and started a company named Intuitive Surgical Devices, Inc. In 2000 the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) approved use of the da Vinci Surgical System for laparoscopic surgery, and Intuitive raised $46 million in an initial public offering.
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