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Archive > July, 2010 Vol. XI, No. 7

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Economics of Anesthesia Delivery
Re: "Study: CRNA Acting Solo Is Most Economical Anesthesia Delivery Model" (www.outpatientsurgery.net/news/2010/06/22). The Journal of Nursing Economics study that asserts that the best method of anesthesia patient care from a quality and economic perspective is a CRNA practicing alone is absolutely inane. Anesthesiology is the practice of medicine, and CRNAs are not licensed to practice medicine. They are committing nursing malpractice by attempting to practice medicine without a license. Do you really believe that is what is best for patients? That absurd assumption is no different than the Journal of Surgical Technologists publishing an opinion that asserts that a surgical technologist can provide surgical care with the same quality but more economically than a surgeon. Or, while we are at it, let's just let the radiology technicians assert that they can interpret radiological studies with the same quality but more economically than radiologists.

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