CRNAs provide a form of anesthesia to countless different types of procedures from a massive open heart surgery to an epidural or spinal block. They work in a very wide variety of situations, but two procedures a nurse anesthetist may perform several times a day would be epidurals and intubations. An epidural is normally given to a woman who is in labor. With this particular type of anesthesia, the patient will stay awake. Before having the the epidural inserted, the patient’s lower back will be sanitized. “The doctor injects medicine just outside of the sac of fluid around your spinal cord” (“Spinal”). That space is called the epidural space. The epidural normally numbs the patient from the waist down (“Spinal”). Intubations are frequently
