Emporia Area Chamber of Commerce and Convention & Visitors Bureau
January 2014
23
15th Annual National
Nurse Anesthetists Week
Administering anesthesia across the United States
for 150 years, Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists
(CRNAs) from Emporia Anesthesia Associates and
thousands of their colleagues from around the country
are celebrating this year’s 15th annual National Nurse
Anesthetists Week campaign taking place, January 1925, 2014.
With a history spanning back to the Civil War, nurse
anesthetists have remained at the head of the table every
moment of their patients’ procedures, administering their
anesthetics, monitoring their vital signs, and helping to
ensure that each year millions of patients receive the
safest anesthesia care possible.
“As CRNAs we administer anesthesia to patients
undergoing cardiac, neurological, oral, and labor and
delivery surgeries just to name a few. Regardless of the
setting, nurse anesthetists apply the same high standards
of care,” said Larry Finley CRNA. “It is a privilege to be a
part of a profession that is dedicated to providing a safe
anesthetic and has historically played a pivotal role in
every facet of anesthesia advancement.”
Nurse anesthetists are advanced practice registered
nurses who administer approximately 33 million
anesthetics in the United States each year. Practicing in
every setting in which anesthesia is available, CRNAs
practice with a great deal of autonomy, and are the
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As the main hands-on provider of anesthesia care in
both military and civilian settings, CRNAs practice in
every setting in which anesthesia is administered. That
includes but is not limited to hospital operating and
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Emporia Anesthesia Associate CRNAs are Jerry
Campbell, Robert Davis, Larry Finley and Brian Tackitt.