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Crnas are encroaching there too. Slower, but it's happening.
I did hear something about that. Nonetheless, it will be too slow a transition. Too much liability and I doubt those who went to nursing school just to become CRNAs (the batch of nursing students the past 5-7 years who jump straight into ICU work upon finishing school just to become CRNAs) would be quick to jump to this setting. It's quite different from their traditional SRNA training and I could see themselves really targeting total independence in the OR first, learning joint blocks, in addition to other procedures, and possibly jumping into Crit Care before they consider expanding into outpatient interventional pain management. They could, however, dabble into medical management if they wanted to much more easily. Of course, I could be wrong about this, but there is too much liability at hand when it comes to entering a needle within the spine, even with fluoro guidance.