Newswise — PARK RIDGE, Illinois— Edwards Lifesciences and other healthcare industry leaders are partnering with anesthesia professionals to advance patient safety through the Corporate Partners Program formed by the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists (AANA). According to the AANA, the program seeks to combine the collective strengths of its 49,000-member association with companies that deliver the products and services used by Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs) to provide ever-safer patient care.
Three other corporate partners have already joined the program. Baxter, PharMEDium, Covidien and Merck are the companies that have signed on with the AANA.
“Collaboration fuels progress,” said AANA President Sharon Pearce, CRNA, MSN.
“Partnering with the AANA and the AANA Foundation provides companies with close access to CRNAs, anesthesia specialists who are the hands-on providers of more than 34 million anesthetics each year in the United States. The AANA values the additional strides in anesthesia research and practice we are able to take because of these partnerships, which help CRNAs lead the way in anesthesia safety.”
Edwards Lifesciences is the global leader in the science of heart valves and hemodynamic monitoring. Driven by a passion to help patients, the company partners with clinicians to develop innovative technologies in the areas of structural heart disease and critical care monitoring that enable them to save and enhance lives.
In addition, Edwards Lifesciences partners with physicians and other healthcare providers to innovate products designed to help patients live longer, healthier and more productive lives. We focus on medical technologies that address large and growing patient populations in which there are significant unmet clinical needs, such as structural heart disease and critical care monitoring.
About the American Association of Nurse AnesthetistsFounded in 1931 and located in Park Ridge, Ill., the AANA is the professional organization representing more than 49,000 Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs) and student registered nurse anesthetists. As advanced practice registered nurses, CRNAs administer approximately 34 million anesthetics to patients in the United States each year and are the primary providers of anesthesia care in rural America. In some states, CRNAs are the sole anesthesia professionals in nearly 100 percent of rural hospitals. For more information, visit www.aana.com.
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