1Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, University of California, San Francisco, Staff Anesthesiologist, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, USA 2Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA 3Attending Anesthesiologist, Department of Anesthesia, Shriners Hospital, Chicago, IL, USA 4Professor...

1. MD, PhD, Anesthesiologist; Professor at the Medical School of Universidade de Fortaleza (UNIFOR); Responsible for the Centro de Ensino e Treinamento (CET/MEC/SBA) at Hospital Universitário Walter Cantídio, Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC); President of the Perioperatative Medicine Committee of SBA 2. MD, PhD, Anesthesiologist; Professor at the Anesthesiology Department of Faculdade de Med...

The relationship between physicians and nurses in the delivery of anesthesia care is politically and financially charged, and hotly debated. Against this backdrop, federal regulators have proposed dropping a Medicare requirement that nurse anesthetists be supervised by a physician. Proponents note that the new regulations would resolve inconsistencies between Medicare supervisory requirements a...