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The CRNA administers general or regional anesthetics to patients to either relieve pain or make patients unconscious for surgical procedures.  Administration of anesthesia may be intravenous, inhalation, or spinal routes, epidural, regional.  During the administration of anesthesia, the CRNA closely monitors the patient’s response by monitoring temperature, pulse, heart rate, and breathing rate/oxygen saturation.  The CRNA will closely monitor the patients during surgery and post-surgery until the patients have recovered from the anesthesia and are stable.  Prior to procedures that require anesthesia, the CRNA meets with the patient and family members to obtain pertinent information, explain the process, and answer any questions.