re: Wisconsin Hospital Replaces All Anesthesiologists with CRNAs

Lots of poor information in the entire thread.

I am an independent CRNA. I work at a hospital with no anesthesiologist in house, on call, or associated with the facility whatsoever.

Independent CRNAs have sole responsibility on all of their actions not the surgeons. Several legal precedents have proven this.

Our scope is broad. We do all epidurals, spinal, regional blocks, general anesthetics, macs, minor sedation.

We also put central lines in our patients that require them during surgical intervention. Thanks to covid we started getting calls from the icu and Er to help Drs intubate and place also central lines in these critically ill pts.

Facilities that practice this model are all over the country. You won’t find this model in a large city hospital but will at a lot of surgical centers or surgical offices.