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n_g... I'll keep rationalizing why reality is the way it is and why patients and the healthcare system will never give a machine to the autonomy to take someone near death then bring them safely back. I'm not saying there would never be a place for a...

OK n_g ...a couple beers down and I'm willing to play along....the spoke and hub design makes perfect sense...I'm sure that the financial incentive to incorporate McSleepy far outweighs the minor cost to completely redesign and rebuild OR's across th...

n_g...to answer your question...100% of the operation involves someone to be there during a MAC case...that's why it's called Monitored Anesthesia Care. So let's say YOU are given a spinal for a knee arthroscopy...the anesthesia person leaves and al...

Congrats to you all...and good luck in your programs

Propofol has 1.1kcal/ml (1100 calories per ml) so 1mg has 110 calories. Now when you get asked this you can rattle it off and look really smart :) Good luck man

The main difference is the VOLUME of info you have to digest in anesthesia school. You're learning detailed anatomy, phys, pathophys, pharm, etc..and if your program is integrated you're doing all this while someone is breathing down your neck in cli...

When McSleepy can intubate, extubate, bag-mask, provide MAC, insert regionals, invasive lines, keep the surgeon from knocking out the ETT, and respond to codes you can start to worry. There's more to anesthesia than titrating in some fentanyl or NDMR...

A girl that went through my program a couple years ago was an ACNP. Ironically she came to anesthesia BECAUSE she was bored with sewing up sutures in th ER, performing physicals, and doing other "resident" type tasks in the unit. Any job will get rou...

There are about 70% of the nations MDA's located here in So Cal (San Diego) included so the area is defintiely MDA dominated at this time. However...there are plenty of CRNA jobs at the big teaching hospitals (UCLA, USC, VA med centers) as well as sm...

I'm in my first year of anesthesia school, nearing the end of semester one. I would have to say the excitement,stress,joy in mastering a concept, and at times sheer terror of making a mistake has not left me yet. The tests in anesthesia school are no...

congrats on your acceptance....I would recommend reviewing the autonomic nervous system, pulmonary , and cardiac physiology. Good luck in school

don't let age stop you...even if you are 45 when you finish CRNA school ...assuming you stay healthy, you will have 20 years to work. And besides you are going to hit that 40 year mark either way...may as well be settting yourself up to do something ...

CHris, every CRNA program weighs things differently. I would contact the programs you most likely apply to in the future and ask them if they would have a preference. From my experience in researching CRNA programs though, most schools just want to ...

Happy...well said...good luck with school and your career.

Merrit...The eye was taken off the ball when Happy decided to derail the question with a "peeve of his". Myself and the other poster were only defending ourselves and the other "1 year ICU to CRNA path folks" out there because our experience was beli...

Hello...I would try contacting Virginia Mason U of Wash Hospital. There is also a hospital in Renton that is staffed by Valley Anesthesia Assoc I believe and the director of that group is very cordial. Contacting the hospital directly and asking to s...

Happy Halothane....I see that your M.O. is to make broad generalizations, snide remarks, and provide the rest of us with an education regarding the necessity of being an 3rd degree blackbelt in the ICU in order to be an acceptable SRNA.. so I'll make...

Insomniac I totally agree....At this point in my anesthesia school education...I can say with confidence that the only instance where I could imagine that spending MORE than 1 year in the ICU would be of any benefit to my future career as a CRNA is i...

"acnp appeals to me because it is hardcore patho, pharm and systems knowledge" not being an acnp...i can't tell you what the schooling is like....but i can tell you that one of the 4 people who failed out of my current anesthesia program was an acn...

Actually I was on the pre-med anesthesia path when I discovered nurse anesthesia. I don't regret making the change to CRNA one bit. I knew I wanted to do anesthesia so it didn't make sense to tack on the extra years of studying general medicine/surge...

I have a different perspective on this issue since starting anesthesia school. I worked in a large level 1 SICU (UCLA), several of my friends in my program worked in the CTICU at the same hospital...both awesome units...Swans, drips, IABPs, ECMO, ......

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Hey Nate I will be starting at Kaiser this Fall...The best way to have your questions answered is to call the school and set up a "counseling" session which you will have to do anyway prior to applying. They will answer most of what you asked in that...

hey JD, yeah I would keep the email that he sent you just in case something would happen when you go to actually transfer the credits. Hopefully everything will be fine. Beedog is right on the money when he said the system there is antiquated...UC p...

I'm assuming the classes you are talking about are some of the "core" classes such as research, theory, etc..I would maybe email him (LC) your syllabus from IU and say that you are just verifying that the courses you are taking meet the requirements....