Complete review for the nurse anesthesia certification exam written by experienced nurse anesthesia educators
More than 800 questions and answers provide the practice you need to excel on the National Certification Examination

This one-of-a-kind review is specifically written to provide student nurse anesthetists with the practice they need to prepare for the National Certification Examination. Current and comprehensive, it will also prove to be an outstanding refresher for seasoned CRNAs preparing for recertification.

Certification Review for Nurse Anesthesia is based upon the content areas tested by the National Board of Certification and Recertification of Nurse Anesthetists. Question types include multiple choice, multiple response, and calculation. Detailed explanations are provided for the answers, along with references to appropriate pages in Morgan and Mikhail's Clinical Anesthesiology, Fifth Edition, and other respected anesthesia textbooks, for more detailed discussion of the topic. Questions are intentionally not grouped according to specific topics in order to provide a review that mirrors the actual test. Common terms and phrases: 47 Morgan acute airway Anesthesia and Co-existing Anesthesiology anesthetic aortic artery atrial blood flow blood pressure Butterworth cardiac output Ch 15 Nurse Ch 21 Morgan Ch 26 Nurse chronic Clinical Anesthesiology 5th Co-existing Disease 6th Co-Exiting Disease Decreased Desflurane dose drug effect Elsevier epidural factors Fentanyl fibers heart rate heparin hypertension hypotension increased induction injection intubation K.L. Ch laryngeal nerve lidocaine Lippincott Williams local anesthetic Louis Mackey Mapleson Marschall McGraw-Hill metabolic mg/kg Mikhail’s Clinical Anesthesiol Mikhail’s Clinical Anesthesiology Miller mitral mL/kg mL/min mmHg Morgan & Mikhail’s morphine muscle myocardial Nagelhout neostigmine nerve block nitrous oxide Nurse Anesthesia 5th ogy 5th ogy 5th ed oxygen pain Pardo patient is scheduled Philadelphia Plaus postoperative preoperative Propofol pulmonary Rationale receptors regurgitation renal respiratory result Rocuronium Ropivacaine Select Sevoflurane sodium spinal stenosis Stoelting succinylcholine surgery syndrome tachycardia thesia 5th undergoing valve venous ventilation Wasnick Williams & Wilkins York