AANA Annual Meeting CRNA Attendee Profile

What does a CRNA do?

  • 94% of CRNAs are involved in direct
    patient care.
  • In more than 67% of all rurals hospitals, CRNAs are the sole anesthesia providers.
  • CRNAs administer more than 30 million anesthetics to patients each year in the U.S.
  • CRNAs perform all these anesthesia-related techniques: general anethesia, monitored anesthesia care, bier block, artery catheter insertion, subarachnoid block, epidural, brachial plexus block, pain management and pulmonary artery catheter insertion.
 


Primary Practice Setting

Primary Practice Setting pie chart  

90%

of CRNAs practice in
community or university
hospitals, while 10%
practice in offices
and clinics.

 


Purchasing Influence

Purchasing Influence pie chart  

80%

of attendees influence
purchasing decisions.

46%

of CRNAs believe their
purchasing power will
increase in the next
5 years.

 


AANA Attendees Take the Exhibits Seriously

How often AANA attendees visit the Exhibit Hall during the Annual Meeting:
Number of Days/Hours Spent in the Exhibit Hall graphs

 

Reasons attendees visit the Exhibit Hall
Reasons Attendees Visit the Exhibit Hall graph