Editing Anesthesia (section)

== Society and culture ==
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{{Further|Anesthesia provision in the United States|Anesthesiologist|Nurse anesthetist}}

Almost all healthcare providers use anesthetic drugs to some degree, but most health professions have their own field of specialists in the field including medicine, nursing and dentistry.

[[Physician|Doctors]] specializing in [[anaesthesiology]], including perioperative care, development of an anesthetic plan, and the administration of anesthetics are known in the US as ''anesthesiologists'' and in the UK, Canada, Australia, and NZ as ''anaesthetists'' or ''anaesthesiologists''. All anesthetics in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Japan are administered by doctors. [[Nurse anesthetists]] also administer anesthesia in 109 nations.<ref name=IFNA>{{cite web| vauthors = McAuliffe MS, Henry B |title=Nurse anesthesia worldwide: practice, education and regulation|work=Downloads|publisher=International Federation of Nurse Anesthetists|location=Silver Spring, Maryland|year=2010|url=http://ifna-int.org/ifna/e107_files/downloads/Practice.pdf|access-date=2012-06-13}}</ref> In the US, 35% of anesthetics are provided by physicians in solo practice, about 55% are provided by anesthesia care teams (ACTs) with anesthesiologists medically directing certified registered nurse anesthetists (CRNAs) or anesthesiologist assistants, and about 10% are provided by CRNAs in solo practice.<ref name=IFNA/><ref name=Physician2007>{{cite journal | vauthors = Abenstein JP, Long KH, McGlinch BP, Dietz NM | title = Is physician anesthesia cost-effective? | journal = Anesthesia and Analgesia | volume = 98 | issue = 3 | pages = 750–57, table of contents | date = March 2004 | pmid = 14980932 | doi = 10.1213/01.ANE.0000100945.56081.AC | s2cid = 7907307 }}</ref><ref name=When2007>{{cite journal | vauthors = Rosenbach ML, Cromwell J | title = When do anesthesiologists delegate? | journal = Medical Care | volume = 27 | issue = 5 | pages = 453–65 | date = May 1989 | pmid = 2725080 | doi = 10.1097/00005650-198905000-00002 | s2cid = 26298329 }}</ref> There can also be [[anesthesiologist assistant]]s (US) or [[physicians' assistant (anaesthesia)|physicians' assistants (anaesthesia)]] (UK) who assist with anesthesia.<ref name=Five>{{cite web|title=Five facts about AAs|publisher=American Academy of Anesthesiologist Assistants|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060926091707/http://www.anesthetist.org/content/view/14/38/|archive-date=2006-09-26|url=http://www.anesthetist.org/content/view/14/38/|access-date=2010-11-25}}</ref>