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1. Can a RN with no certification in anesthesia administer tumescent anesthesia?

   liponurse replied to sleepy1010's topic in CRNA

   By overly aggressive, do you mean too much aspirate, or just recklessness (bowel perforation, etc)? When Tumescent Local Anesthesia is limited to 45mg/kg (and in concentrations of 700-900 mg per liter of fluid), as specified by Dr. Jeffrey Klein, inv...

2. Can a RN with no certification in anesthesia administer tumescent anesthesia?

   liponurse replied to sleepy1010's topic in CRNA

   I guess one could wonder why a nurse would want to do any nursing procedure that she/he routinely does...... I actually started my career as a pediatric nurse and remember someone asking me how I do things to crying, frightened children. It was a goo...

3. Can a RN with no certification in anesthesia administer tumescent anesthesia?

   liponurse replied to sleepy1010's topic in CRNA

   I am well trained, very proficient and practicing within the scope of my license. I am covered by malpractice insurance. Using jwk's rationale, why would a nurse ever do anything where a mistake could happen if it would be career ending? One could s...

4. Tumescent solution

   liponurse replied to Joshualive2's topic in CRNA

   You absolutely would not want to add IV and tumescent local anesthesia lidocaine together to total the maximum of "55mg/kg". The absorption is completely different. Tumescent Lidocaine is absorbed slowly due to the dilute nature and epinephrine whi...

5. Can a RN with no certification in anesthesia administer tumescent anesthesia?

   liponurse replied to sleepy1010's topic in CRNA

   Additional and extensive info on infiltration can be found at the following link, although use of spinal needles are now minimized in favor of the use of multi-lumened blunt tipped 16g or 16g infiltration (Monty) cannulas. Chapter 26: Tumescent ...

6. Can a RN with no certification in anesthesia administer tumescent anesthesia?

   liponurse replied to sleepy1010's topic in CRNA

   I am an RN practicing in California and have been injecting, or "infiltrating" tumescent local anesthetic (aka very dilute, large volume, local anesthetic) for almost 25 years. In California, nurses may perform standardized procedures with adequate ...