Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs) are the hands-on providers of anesthesia care, operating safely in every setting where anesthesia is administered, including hospital operating and delivery rooms; ambulatory surgical centers; the offices of dentists, podiatrists, ophthalmologists, and plastic surgeons; pain management centers and more.

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CRNAs were the first professional group to provide anesthesia in the United States and are the oldest recognized group of advanced practice registered nurse specialists in the country, first providing anesthesia to wounded soldiers during the Civil War. That tradition continues today, with CRNAs remaining the primary anesthesia providers in the U.S. military’s austere combat theaters.

With their advanced training and vast clinic experience, CRNAs play a critical role in addressing rising health-care costs, protecting patient health, and ensuring access to quality care, especially in rural and underserved areas, where they enable health-care facilities to provide obstetrical, surgical, pain management and trauma stabilization services they otherwise would not be able to offer.

That’s what makes CRNAs the experts you can trust … for care you can count on.