They are the person in the O.R. keeping you alive. Surgeons see you as a piece of meat to go to work on (future well being). Anestheologists and nurse anesthetists keep you alive while your guts are cut open and in probably the craziest state a human body can be in while still considering it to be “alive”. All possible scenarios and issues are the anestheia providers job to manage. THEY order the surgeon to stop for the patients well being. THEY run the show on behalf of you, the patient.
They know so much.
Source: my wife is going on her clinical nurse anesthetist rotations in 3 days.
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