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Emporia Area Chamber of Commerce and Convention & Visitors Bureau
January and February 2018
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Certified Registered Nurse
Anesthetists celebrate National
CRNA Week
Administering anesthesia across the United States
for more than 150 years, Certified Registered Nurse
Anesthetists (CRNAs) from Emporia Anesthesia
Associates at Newman Regional Health (NRH)
and more than 50,000 of their colleagues from
around the country are celebrating this year’s 19th
annual National CRNA Week campaign taking place,
January 21-27, 2018.
 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. 
majority of rural hospitals.
 As the main hands-on provider of anesthesia care
 “As CRNAs we administer anesthesia to patients in both military and civilian settings, CRNAs practice
undergoing cardiac, neurological, oral, and labor and in every setting in which anesthesia is administered.
delivery surgeries just to name a few.  Regardless That includes but is not limited to hospital operating
of the setting, nurse anesthetists apply the same and delivery rooms; ambulatory surgical centers;
high standards of care to each patient,” states Larry the offices of dentists, podiatrists, ophthalmologists,
Finley, DNAP, CRNA (Director of Anesthesiology at plastic surgeons; pain management centers, and
NRH).   “It is a privilege to be a part of a profession within the U.S. Military, Public Health Services, and
that is dedicated to providing a safe anesthetic and Department of Veterans Affairs medical facilities. 
has historically played a pivotal role in every facet of
anesthesia advancement.”
 Nurse anesthetists are advanced practice registered
 National CRNA Week was established by the
American Association of Nurse Anesthetists (AANA),
and was created to encourage CRNAs to take the
nurses who administer more than 34 million opportunity to educate the public about anesthesia
anesthetics in the United States each year. Practicing safety, questions to ask prior to undergoing surgery,
in every setting in which anesthesia is available, and the benefits of receiving anesthesia care from a
CRNAs practice with a great deal of autonomy, and nurse anesthetist. To learn more about the AANA visit
are the sole anesthesia professionals in the vast www.aana.com.