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Annual Meeting Scheduled |
| Next annual meeting will be 27 & 28 Feb at Alaska Native Medical Center in Anchorage. The first day will be a full day ultrasound course. We will provide you with an electronic brochure soon. The second day will be a morning continuing education program with our annual business meeting to follow. |
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ALASKA
ASSOCIATION OF NURSE ANESTHETISTS
The members of the Alaska Association of Nurse Anesthetists
advance quality and excellence in anesthesia care.
AANA supports its members who deliver quality anesthesia
care, ensure patient safety and advance the art and science
of anesthesia.
Facts About Nurse Anesthesia
Nurse anesthetists have been providing anesthesia care to patients in the United States for nearly 150 years. The credential CRNA (Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist) came into existence in 1956. CRNAs are anesthesia professionals who safely administer approximately 32 million anesthetics to patients each year in the United States, according to the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists (AANA) 2008 Practice Profile Survey. CRNAs practice in every setting in which anesthesia is delivered: traditional hospital surgical suites and obstetrical delivery rooms; critical access hospitals; ambulatory surgical centers; the offices of dentists, podiatrists, ophthalmologists, plastic surgeons, and pain management specialists; and U.S. military, Public Health Services, and Department of Veterans Affairs healthcare facilities.
Nurse anesthetists have been the main providers of anesthesia care to U.S. military men and women on the front lines since WWI, including current conflicts in the Middle East.
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