The national society built exclusively for obstetric anesthesia providers
SONAR is the only national organization dedicated exclusively to supporting obstetric anesthesia providers through evidence-based education, original research, workforce data, and leadership development of CRNAs. We connect the realities of obstetric anesthesia practice in communities across the country with the education, research, and resources needed to strengthen care where it actually happens.
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4 credits or 4 online CEUs of CRNA and obstetric anesthesia education, all free for members
Offers for CRNAs and nurse anesthesia programs
Today, SONAR works to bring the realities of community obstetric anesthesia into the national conversation through research, data, education, and advocacy.
Why we built SONAR:
A voice for community obstetric anesthesia
National recommendations for maternal care are often developed through the lens of large academic and tertiary care centers. But that is not where all Americans receive their care. Across the country, community hospitals and labor and delivery units care for mothers every day, often with CRNAs providing their anesthesia care.
When recommendations began defining the anesthesia resources expected at different levels of maternal care without adequately representing these practice models, it became clear that the people doing this work were largely missing from the conversation.
Obstetric CRNAs, Suzie Newell and Jonathan Alvarado, enlisted the support of others and began the long journey of creating a society that would give a voice to the people actually doing the work in hospitals and communities across the country.
That society became SONAR — the Society of Obstetric Nurse Anesthesiology and Research.
A national network of obstetric CRNAs
Our growing SONAR network includes CRNAs from more than 26 states, representing hundreds of labor and delivery units nationwide.
Through this network, we are capturing how CRNAs practice, what services they provide, how obstetric anesthesia care is structured, and how practice varies across states and healthcare settings.