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Specializes in CTICU, Burn ICU, STICU.

Curious to know what research topics CRNA's are interested in/partake in? I have found a few websites that have pointed me in the correct direction ie AANA. But outside of school and some kinda of senior thesis, are there any CRNA's out there that are currently involved in research projects or anesthetic subject matter that would like to share some things they are involved in? I am interested to gain more insight into the world "beyond CRNA work". Meaning, outside of job duties and "punching the clock" how are you positively adding to the profession on a professional level and utilizing the Masters level education that allows you to review journals and critique research??

New to the topic so I am just breaking the ice and interested

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Specializes in Anesthesia.
Research Topics and Articles I personally want to do my research for my PhD looking at how the PTSD mouse brain is effected when exposed to volatile agents (sevoflurane) before contracting/given PTSD, after PTSD, and then with the amygdala suppressed.
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Specializes in CTICU, Burn ICU, STICU.

Nice, it looks like a good resource. As for the research you want to focus on-what led you to PTSD specifically? Will that be a project you continue to work on with a team somewhere (ie. lab/schoo/teaching facility) and how do you hope to apply that to your clinical work?

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Specializes in Anesthesia.
Nice, it looks like a good resource. As for the research you want to focus on-what led you to PTSD specifically? Will that be a project you continue to work on with a team somewhere (ie. lab/schoo/teaching facility) and how do you hope to apply that to your clinical work?

http://www.ptsd.va.gov/professional/newsletters/research-quarterly/V20N1.pdf PTSD is everyday occurrence among my patients being a military CRNA with many of those patients having extreme emergence delirium.

I just want to identify what areas of the brain are most effected with patients with PTSD being exposed to volatile anesthetics. This will hopefully lead to better treatments, and possible ways to avoid emergence delirium in patients with PTSD.

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