CRNA and neonatal surgery

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Anyone get to do work on neonates (either in the OR or in the NICU) or is that type of thing usually reserved for peds anesthesia fellows?

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The anesthesia students do cases on neonates- this week 2 TEFs and a :) PDA.

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plenty of them...

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Specializes in NICU, Infection Control.

When I work in a level 3 NICU [in a teaching hospital], if I was assigned to take a kid to OR, my 1st ? was who's anesthesia? I wanted to hear it was a Peds anesthesia attending. If that wasn't the case, I asked the neonatal fellow to go w/me for induction. I got burned too many times when the anesthesia resident couldn't tube the kid, or bolused the baby w/100 mls or "so". Didn't really want to see a regular attending either. It was way too scary.

I should say that in a dedicated children's hospital, I would have felt differently. But that hospital wasn't, 90+% of cases were adults. That makes a HUGE difference.

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