I am sure many of us have seen or heard about devices like the one above, "McSleepy".


Do you think within the next 20 years some cases will be automated? ...

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I’m very excited to be able to tell you about the Chronic Pain Awareness insert in the September 21, 2012 issue of USA Today featuring a two-page spread on nurse anesthesia and the AANA. The AANA is also featured on the cover in a banner ad promoting “Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists: Alleviating Pain for 150 Years.” Distribution markets for the print version of the insert include the New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Philadelphia editions of USA Today, for a total print circulation exceeding 460,000. Total readership, not including digital impressions, is estimated at more than 1.4 million. All of the sponsors and featured organizations in the insert will also be distributing the publication to their memberships and affiliates electronically, expanding the readership by a wide margin.


The timing of this wonderful exposure for the nurse anesthesia profession and the AANA is fortuitous given the CMS ...

Case Report


General Anaesthesia for Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy in a Patient with the Kearns-Sayre Syndrome
Paolo Calzavacca, Walter Schmidt, and Manuela Guzzi
Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, AO Melegnano, PO Uboldo, 20063 Cernsuco sul Naviglio, Italy


Received 12 November 2011; Accepted 26 December 2011


Academic Editor: J. Malek


Copyright © 2011 Paolo Calzavacca et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided ...

A national project targeting central line-associated bloodstream infections has lowered overall rates of such infections by 40% among participating hospitals, according to government data released Monday.


The initiative, funded by the ...

(we know Janice - she's a smart, cool woman. She and the BOD, and ANNA staff has been working hard on this project. If ...

Researchers are using sophisticated and powerful new tools to develop and evaluate new anesthetic agents with important advantages over current drugs, according to a set of papers in the August issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia, official journal of the International Anesthesia ...

For Gregg White, MS, CRNA, working as a nurse anesthetist has always been a dynamic and rewarding experience. But White's life has taken on a new momentum since co-founding a mobile anesthesia program in 2011.


"There's never a dull moment," White said. "Being part of a mobile anesthesia team is an exciting and continual challenge."


Along with Shawn DeRemer, MD, White co-founded Anesthesia Associates Northwest (AANW), an anesthesia staffing and management company in Portland, OR, in 2005.


The company provides skilled anesthesia clinicians to local hospitals, medical centers, ambulatory surgery centers, medical and dental clinics. White ...

BESIDES being impossibly gorgeous mothers, what else do Christy Turlington, Karolina Kurkova and Gisele Bündchen have in common?


Each could probably afford to buy her own private wing at a hospital, but instead of going to a top-notch obstetrician, all chose a midwife to deliver their babies.


“When I met my midwife, her whole approach felt closer to home,” said Ms. Turlington, who delivered both her children — Grace, 9, and Finn, 6 — with a midwife at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital ...