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Expanding the scope of practice for nurse practitioners (NPs) would not diminish quality of care, a literature review found.


In fact, states struggling to meet the growing demand for primary care services should expand scope-of-practice laws for NPs and other advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs), the National Governors Association said in its review of the issue.


The group looked at 22 articles, ...

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PHILADELPHIA — A syndrome called "post-operative cognitive decline" has been coined to refer to the commonly reported loss of cognitive abilities, usually in older adults, in the days to weeks after surgery. In fact, some patients time the onset of their Alzheimer's disease symptoms from a surgical ...

CRNA Pain Management Case Studies


August 2012


American Association of Nurse Anesthetists
Lewin contact: Paul Hogan


Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs), educated with specialized training, skill, and expertise in pain management, provide chronic pain management in rural areas, underserved by physicians and healthcare facilities. CRNA services are often the sole source of chronic pain management services in these areas. If the patients are not able to access care from the local CRNAS, the alternatives are to travel great distances for care from physicians, to have expensive and invasive surgery, or to be institutionalized as a result of untreated pain.


The report discusses four case studies about four Medicare beneficiaries who are currently receiving pain treatment from their local (rural) CRNA. Each case discusses the costs – medical and indirect (non-medical and opportunity cost) – of the current treatment pathway, and alternative pathways ...

Canadian inventor Dr. Hemmerling, the creator of the automated propofol administration system, has also created a new robotic system for regional anesthesia guided by ultrasound call the ...

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 ...

Transmission of life-threatening bacterial infections can occur when health-care personnel do not adhere to Standard Precautions and instead use medication in containers labeled as single-dose or single-use for more than one patient (1). This report summarizes the investigation of two outbreaks of invasive Staphylococcus aureus infection confirmed in 10 patients being treated for pain in outpatient clinics. In each outbreak, the use of single-dose or single-use vials (SDVs) for more than one patient was associated with infection ...

In a study of more than 18,000 patients having surgery for hip fracture, researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania found that the use of regional anesthesia versus general ...