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2. Nurse anesthetist - Wikipedia

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   A nurse anesthetist is an advanced practice nurse who administers anesthesia for surgery or other medical procedures. Nurse anesthetists (NA's) administer or participate in administration of anesthesia services in 107 countries, working with or without anesthesiologists. [1] Because of different historical backgrounds, anesthetist ...

3. Balanced anesthesia - Wikipedia

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   Balanced anesthesia. [ edit on Wikidata] Balanced anesthesia is an anesthetic method for surgical patients during their operation. The method was proposed by John Lundy in 1926. [1] The purpose of balanced anesthesia is to use multiple anesthetic agents for a safer general anesthesia and to mitigate the potential adverse side effects which may ...

4. General anaesthesia - Wikipedia

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   General anaesthesia (UK) or general anesthesia (US) is a method of medically inducing loss of consciousness that renders a patient unarousable even with painful stimuli. [5] This effect is achieved by administering either intravenous or inhalational general anaesthetic medications, which often act in combination with an analgesic and ...

5. Perianesthesia nursing - Wikipedia

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   Perianesthesia nursing. Perianesthesia nursing is a nursing specialty practice area concerned with providing nursing care to patients undergoing or recovering from anesthesia. Perianesthesia nursing encompasses several subspecialty practice areas and represents a diverse number of practice environments and skill sets.

6. Anesthesiology - Wikipedia

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   Anesthesiology. Anesthesiology, anaesthesiology, or anaesthesia is the medical specialty concerned with the total perioperative care of patients before, during and after surgery. [1] It encompasses anesthesia, intensive care medicine, critical emergency medicine, and pain medicine. [2] A physician specialized in anesthesiology is called an ...

7. Certified registered nurse anesthetist - Wikipedia

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   A nurse anesthetist administers a local anesthetic. A Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist ( CRNA) is a type of advanced practice nurse who administers anesthesia in the United States. CRNAs account for approximately half of the anesthesia providers in the United States and are the main providers (80%) of anesthesia in rural America. [1]

8. Nursing care plan - Wikipedia

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   A nursing care plan provides direction on the type of nursing care the individual/family/community may need. [1] The main focus of a nursing care plan is to facilitate standardised, evidence-based and holistic care. [2] Nursing care plans have been used for quite a number of years for human purposes and are now also getting used in the ...

9. Preanesthetic assessment - Wikipedia

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   Preanesthetic assessment. Preanesthetic assessment (also called preanesthesia evaluation, pre-anesthesia checkup (PAC) or simply preanesthesia) is a medical check-up and laboratory investigations done by an anesthesia provider or a registered nurse before an operation, to assess the patient's physical condition and any other medical problems or ...