Duty and Role of Perioperative Nurses during Surgery

Abstract

In 2014, “Certified Nurse for Perioperative Management” was launched by the Japanese Society of Anesthesiologists and related professional societies. This is designed to reduce the burden of anesthesiologists who work to guarantee the safety and quality of perioperative medicine in a team of nurses, pharmacists and other co-medicals. Demand for general anesthesia keeps increasing as the proportion of elderly patients grows. It is therefore very important to leverage these human resources to provide safer and higher-quality perioperative medicine.