AANA Journal Online Content Archive

• Letters to the Editor
• Practice News: A Review of New and Updated Professional Practice Documents
  Emily Butera, BA, Sherry Bernardo, DNP, MHA, MSN, CRNA, Ewa Greenier, MPH, Brett Morgan, DNP, CRNA, FAAN
  
• Practice News: Supporting the Foundation of Nurse Anesthesia Education: A Report of the Faculty Stabilization Taskforce
  Rebecca Lee, DNP, CRNA, Laura Bonanno, PhD, DNP, CRNA, Cormac O’Sullivan, PhD, CRNA, ARNP, Michael Anderson, DNP, CRNA, Marjorie Everson, PhD, CRNA, Meredith Wallace Kazer, PhD, CNL, APRN, A/GNP-BC, FAAN, Erica Moore, DNP, CRNA, Crystal O’Guin, DNP, CRNA, Judy Thompson, DNAP, CRNA, APRN, FAANA, Brett Morgan, DNP, CRNA, FAAN, Ewa Greenier, MBA, MPH, CAE

• Imagining In Time
  A Commitment to Quality: The History of Nurse Anesthesia Accreditation Part Two: 1983-2019
  Betty Horton, PhD, CRNA, FAAN, Michael Kremer, PhD, CRNA, CHSE, FNAP, FAAN
• Imaging In Time
  Gertrude Mary Gerrard, Chief Anesthetist, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital
  Michael A. Miller, MSN, CRNA
  Sukumar P. Desai, MD

February 2021

• Guest Editorial: Supporting Caregivers During COVID-19: Transforming Compassionate Care From a Way of Doing to Being
• Practice News Point-of-Care Ultrasound in Anesthesia Care
• The Editor's Desk: Science and Clinical Potpourri for Your Life and Your Practice
• Imagining In Time

December 2020

• Practice News: Preparing a Nonsurgical Pain Practice for Reopening During COVID-19
  W. Keith Barnhill, PhD, CRNA, ARNP
  Bradley Zeithamel, DNP, CRNA, ARNP
  Barbara Anderson, JD
  Brett Morgan, DNP, CRNA
• Letters
• 2020 Index to Volume 88

October 2020

• Practice News: Alternate Recertification Pathways: Nurse Anesthetist Survey Results
  Sonya Moore, DNP, CRNA
  Dean West, FASAE
  Brett Morgan, DNP, CRNA
  Lorraine Jordan, PhD, CRNA, CAE, FAAN

August 2020

• The Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist as a Late-Career Practitioner
  Judy Thompson, DNAP, CRNA, APRN

June 2020

• Letters
  Treat COVID-19 as Though It Is Airborne: It May Be
  Thomas Eissenberg, PhD
  Souha S. Kanj, MD, FACP, FIDSA, FRCP
  Alan L. Shihadeh, ScD
• Letters
  The Impact of Covid-19: Findings from a Survey of CRNAs
  Jihan Quraishi, MS, RN, AE-C, CCRC
  Lorraine Jordan, PhD, CRNA, CAE, FAAN
  Ruby L. Hoyem, PhD
• N95 Respirator Decontamination and Reuse: Current State of the Evidence
  Kip Wharton, BA, BSN
  Michael Rieker, DNP, CRNA, FAAN
• Transporting Anesthesia Workstations to Hospitals for Use as Ventilators
  Paul N. Austin, PhD, CRNA
  Michael Dosch, PhD, CRNA
• Providing Anesthesia for Emergent Surgery in a Patient With COVID-19
  Jacob Heesch, MSN, CRNA, ARNP
  Yatish Ranganath, MD
  Cormac O’Sullivan, PhD, CRNA, ARNP
• Using the Anesthesia Workstation as a Ventilator for Critically Ill Patients: Technical Considerations
  Michael Dosch, PhD, CRNA

April 2020

• Letters
  Comments from the authors of the February 2020 article “Turnover, Burnout, and Job Satisfaction of Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists in the United States: Role of Job Characteristics and Personality” are included.
• Imagining in Time
  Betty Horton, PhD, CRNA, FAAN
  Michael Kremer, PhD, CRNA, CHSE, FNAP, FAAN
  This article details The History of Nurse Anesthesia Accreditation Part One: 1930-1982.

February 2020

• Letters
  Topics include "Nurse Anesthesia Training in 1946," "NVM for Prevention of Upper Airway Obstruction," and "Double Gloving and Infection Control."
• Practice News
  Jessica Poole, DNAP, CRNA
  Ewa Greenier, MPH, MBA, CAE
  This article highlights several revised and newly developed documents, which include topics such as the standards for nurse anesthesia practice, office-based anesthesia practice, anesthesia for patients with substance use disorder, clinical privileges for CRNAs, ketamine infusion therapy, postanesthesia care, and medication-assisted therapy.

December 2019

• Index to Volume 87 of the AANA Journal

October 2019

• Letters
  Mary Jeanette Mannino, JD, CRNA
  Berend Mets, MB ChB, PhD
  Bruce E. Koch, MSN, CRNA
  Lisa Ferrand, MSA, CRNA, APRN
  Edwin Aroke, PhD, CRNA 

August 2019

• Education News
  Promoting Patient Safety Through an International Approval Process for Anesthesia Schools
  Betty J. Horton, PhD, CRNA, FAAN;
  Susana P. Anang, SRN, SRM, NA;
  Karin B. Björkelund, PhD, RN, AN IC;
  Marianne Riesen, BSN;
  Hui-Ju Yang, PhD, RNA

June 2019

• Guest Editorial
  The Opioid Crisis and the Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist: Caring for Patients Receiving Medication-Assisted Treatment
  Jeffrey R. Darna, DNP, CRNA, ACNP-BC
  Sarah E. Giron, PhD, CRNA
  Charles A. Griffis, PhD, CRNA

April 2019

• Education News
  A Pediatric Airway "Rotator" Program" A Performance Improvement Initiative
  Mary Scott-Herring, DNP, MS, CRNA; Aileen Mendez, MS, CRNA; Joanne Shay, MD, MBA; John McCloskey, MD; Rahul Koka, MD, MPH
• Letters
  • Waking Up Safer? An Anesthesiologist’s Record,
    Bruce E. Koch, MSN, CRNA
  • High-Flow Nasal Oxygen,
    Rebecca Sullivan, CRNA
  • Opioid-free Anesthesia: A Required Skill for Anesthesia Providers?,
    Thomas Baribeault, MSN, CRNA
  • Pictorial and Video-based Explanation of Central Neuraxial Block in a Deaf-Mute Patient for Major Abdominal Surgery,
    Wasimul Hoda, MD; Sidharth Suri; Rakesh Garg, MD

February 2019

• Drug Diversion in the Anesthesia Profession: How Can Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation Help Everyone Be Safe? Report of a Meeting Sponsored by the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation
  Maria Van Pelt, PhD, CRNA
  Tricia Meyer, MS, PharmD
  Rigo Garcia, MSN, MBA, CRNA
  Brian J. Thomas, JD
  Ronald S. Litman, DO, ML
• Letters
  Core Temperature—The Intraoperative Difference Between Esophageal Versus Nasopharyngeal Temperatures and the Impact of Pre-warming, Age, and Weight
  Maria Stortz, BSN
  Timur Kitaev, BSN
  Charles A. Griffis, PhD, CRNA

December 2018

• Education News
  Hippocrates to Nightingale: Converging or Diverging Concepts in Patient Management and Decision Making
  Jorge A. Valdes, DNP, CRNA
  Brian Kradel, MD
  Scarlett Hinson, DNP, CRNA
• Letters
  Prevention of Prospective and Current Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist Second Victims
  Kenneth Lowe, BSN, CCRN
• 2018 Index to Volume 86

October 2018

• Guest Editorial
  The Opioid Crisis and the Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist: Caring for Patients With Opioid Use Disorder in Drug-Free Recovery
  Sarah E. Giron, PhD, CRNA
  Robert A. Olson, DNAP, CRNA
  Charles A. Griffis, PhD, CRNA
  Peggy Compton, PhD, RN, FAAN
• Books, Etc.
  Perioperative Considerations and Positioning for Neurosurgical Procedures
  Terri Dawn Kane, DNAP, CRNA

August 2018

• Guest Editorial
  Considerations for Management of Bupivacaine Formulation Shortage Affecting Obstetric Anesthesia Services
  Brian Kasson, MHS, CRNA
  Victoria Hledin, MPH
  Beth Clayton, DNP, MS, CRNA
  Joseph Pellegrini, PhD, CRNA, FAAN
  Lynn Reede, DNP, MBA, CRNA, FNAP
• Letters
  Neuromuscular Block Monitoring Has New Opportunities Coming
  Mark Welliver, DNP, CRNA, ARNP

June 2018

• Letters
  What Are We Forgetting in the Opioid Epidemic?
  Linda Welch, DNP, CRNA
  
  Lost and Found: The Story of a Laryngoscope Bulb
  Nitin Manohar, MD, DNB, DM
  Gajanan, Fultambkar, DNB
  Sagar Bandishte, MD, DNB
  Keerthi Shankar Rao, DA, DNB
  Deepti Srinivas, PDF
  
  Improving Patient Handovers in Peri-Anesthesia Settings Is More than Filling Out Checklists
  Jiale Hu, RN, MScN
  Yan Yang, RN, MScN

April 2018

• Education News
  Professional Socialization and Political Advocacy
  Angela R. Mund, DNP, CRNA
• Education News
  Basics of the Objective Structured Clinical Exam
  Michele M. Ballister, DNP, CRNA, APRN, CHSE
• Imagining in Time
  An Unsung Hero: Anne Penland, Nurse Anesthetist
  Luann Nelson
  Sandra M. Ouellette, MEd, CRNA, FAAN

February 2018

• Guest Editorial
  The Challenge of Balancing the Doctoral Scholarly Project and Clinical Competence in Nurse Anesthesia Educational Programs
  Gerard T. Hogan, DNSc, CRNA, ARNP-BC
• Letters
  Anesthesia Ready Time: Measuring Your Efficiency
  Brian Don Berry, MBA, MS, CRNA

December 2017

• Guest Editorial
  Setting the Record Straight: Comparing the Education of a CRNA and an Anesthesiologist
  Randall D. Moore, DNP, MBA, CRNA
  Francis Gerbasi, PhD, CRNA
  Bruce A. Schoneboom, PhD, CRNA, FAAN, COL(ret), ANC, USA> Education News
• Clinical Evaluation Tool for Student Registered Nurse Anesthetists Based on Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) Competencies
• Anesthesia & Analgesia
  Distractions in the Anesthesia Work Environment: Impact on Patient Safety? Report of a Meeting Sponsored by the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation
  Maria van Pelt, PhD, CRNA
  Matthew B. Weinger, MD
• 2017 AANA Journal Index

August 2017

• Guest Editorial
  The Opioid Crisis and the Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist: How Can We Help?
  Sarah E. Giron, PhD, CRNA
  Jeffrey R. Darna, DNP, CRNA Education News
• A CRNA Preceptor Workshop to Increase Preceptor Satisfaction, Confidence, and Comfort: A Quality Improvement Project
  Sarabdeep Singh, PhD

June 2017

• Guest Editorial
  You Are Needed—Service and the AANA
  Bruce A. Schoneboom, PhD, CRNA, FAAN, COL(ret), ANC, USA

April 2017

• Practice News
  Infection Control and Patient Safety: What Is Desirable and What Is Possible During Anesthesia?
  Lynn Reede, DNP, MBA, CRNA, FNAP
  Michelle O'Rourke, MPH
  Victoria Hledin, MPH<

February 2017

• Consensus Bundle on Prevention of Surgical Site Infections After Major Gynecologic Surgery
  Paloma Toledo, MD, MPH
  David E. Soper, MD
  William C. Bradford, DO
  Deborah A. Cruz, MSN, RNC
  Barbara S. Levy, MD
  Lauren A. Lemieux, BS