Purpose The purpose of this study was to interpret and describe the patient-nurse
anesthetist (NA) interaction during regional anesthesia. Design Video recordings conducted
during orthopedic surgery at a surgical clinic in Sweden formed the basis for the study, in
which three patients and three NAs participated. Methods A hermeneutic analysis was
conducted on the data. Finding The findings of the analysis demonstrated that the NA was in
either “present” presence or “absent” presence in the awake patient's visual field during …