Dr. SUE SINCLAIR (Anesthetist, Solihull Hospital, Birmingham, U.K.): This is (unintelligible), one of our trauma wards.

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Curious to learn more, he did operations on rabbits and stray cats, with his mother acting as anesthetist.

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In many operating rooms today, the majority of anesthesia will be handled by a nurse anesthetist, under the supervision of an anesthesiologist.

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Other deaths from the drug have occurred when administered by non-anesthetist professionals, in settings such as ophthalmology, gynecology and plastic surgery, he said.

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Despite this, the plaintiffs argued, a nurse anesthetist at Desert Shadow injected a Hep C-infected patient with Propofol, then returned the syringe to the bottle, infecting the contents, before using another syringe to inject Chanin.

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