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This is complete and total BS. I can categorically state with 100% certainty that no graduate of an accredited AA program has EVER gone back to be trained as a CRNA.

Greg - I have no doubt that you are a good guy and mean what you say. However, you ARE against AAs if you are a dues paying member of the AANA. A percentage of every dollar that you pay to them goes directly towards efforts severely curtail or elim...

Well... I read THAT and absolutely laughed MY you know what off. Smearing a profession with no outcome studies to back it up?? Why the audacity of it!!! You guys kill me. How is that any different from what you CRNAs and your beloved AANA are doi...

Actually this document better outlines the recertification process for anesthesiologists. http://www.csahq.org/pdf/bulletin/issue_7/strum044.pdf

AA ongoing certification: http://aa-nccaa.org/certification.htm#Certification Anesthesiologists ongoing certification: http://www.abpsga.org/certification/anesthesiology/recertification.html Now please cite YOUR references to back up your incredibly ...

Very simple. We take the jobs in the cities working with the anesthesiologists, thereby freeing you guys up to take the jobs in the underserved rural areas. You don't want to work under MDA supervision anyway ... no problem - we'll do it.

Where did you get the statistic that complications are occuring in 1% of AA cases???? That is an outrageous fabrication. Where is your data to support the notion that the public is at risk?? It is a fact that AAs are as safe as CRNAs. If you read t...

1. Emory 2. Case Western 3. South University 4. Nova - Ft. Lauderdale 5. Univ of Missouri School of Medicine

Guys.... guys.... please! Don't fight with each other. That's what JWK and I are here for.

Umm.... Okay...not exactly a scathing indictment of the AA profession, but if it really happened I see that as nothing more than you coming across a slack AA student. Maybe she did not know you were discussing Succinylcholine. If she came from the Em...

Hey, it looks like he's getting ready to say something. Shhhhh everybody, let's hear what he has to say........ Ahh forget it. Same crap he said in the other thread. Again, Deepz , you add nothing of substance to the discussion. You really are quit...

Forgive me , but when did I ever say or even imply that I was the superior provider????

Cool Mike. New AA grads are brought along slowly in the ACT environment. Easy cases to start, lots of direct supervision. Over time, they become more independant and gravitate to the bigger more complex cases. Just like the mentoring that you got ...

No, I am an AA who can do everything that a CRNA does (except bill for my services) and I was trained in 2 years. And I, unlike you have more insight into your profession than you have in mine since I have always, my whole carreer worked with CRNAs ...

You get no argument from me on this. I have stated numerous times that the CRNA right out of school probably has an advantage over the new AA grad. But after 5 years you would not be able to tell them apart. I'll take it one step further and say that...

Mike - thank you for the kind words in your earlier post. That being said, I take issue with your statement that ""AAs will never have this experience.." I, too, have coded many,many patients. I practice in a large academic city hospital where the ...

Absolutely I do. I know it for a fact because I did it.

By whom - nurses??

And many AAs aren't nurses before beginning their anesthesia training and it doesn't seem to be affecting the level of care that THEY provide. So why are you right and I'm so wrong. OF COURSE, it's not the degree that makes the provider a great clini...

Who are you and what have you done with Deepz and Swumpgas?

Ahhh... Deepz. Missed you buddy, how've you been??

We are not trying to close the gap. We don't want to take over the world. How many times and how many different ways do you need me to say it. While the AANA has as a major agenda the abolition of AAs nationwide, the AAAA is not interested in putting...

JWK - Okay - why you guys resurrected this old thread is beyond me but I'll play. Here's how my day went today: Met my patient in preop. He's posted for an off-pump CABG X 4 with bilat. mammaries. He's got a normal EF but has unstable angina and is ...

When placing an IV, you have to think not only about how that IV will function intra-op but post-op as well. If I'm cannulating the AC or an EJ I'll always use the longer catheter because I worry that the shorter catheter might lever out of the vein...