Anesthesia Outside the Operating Room: Office-Based and NORA Practice
Same patient, thinner safety net — plan for it.
Endoscopy suites, interventional radiology, and dental and plastic surgery offices: anesthesia outside the main OR keeps growing, and help is farther away. Patient selection, equipment and staffing, the slide from sedation into general anesthesia, emergency readiness, and transfer planning when help is down the hall or across town.
CRNAs working in, or considering, endoscopy, interventional radiology, office-based, and other non-operating-room settings.
What you'll be able to do
Concrete, bedside-ready capabilities — not abstract objectives.
Select patients and procedures that suit an office or remote location.
Apply equipment, monitoring, and staffing standards outside the main operating room.
Recognize and manage the transition from sedation to general anesthesia.
Prepare for and run an emergency with limited resources, including transfer.
Identify the regulatory and accreditation requirements that apply to office-based anesthesia.
Your instructor
Anastasia is a practicing nurse anesthetist who also builds clinical software. That combination is rare — she works in the OR and with the code, so she can translate what these AI tools actually do into language clinicians use, without the vendor spin.