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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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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