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Roxanne McMurray, Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, Minneapolis, MN, M Health Fairview Southdale Hospital

RoxanneRMcMurrayDNP, APRN, CRNA

Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist • Minneapolis, MN

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Summary

  • Roxanne McMurray has been a practicing anesthesia provider around 30 years. She is the inventor of the McMurray Enhanced Airway (MEA) and co-founder of McMurray Medical Group. McMurray is a retired Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota.

    Today’s patients often present with an increased risk of upper airway obstruction and apnea due to an abundance of redundant tissue in the distal pharynx. Patients who are obese, older or have sleep apnea are prone to distal pharyngeal tissue redundancy that contributes to airway obstruction. Mask ventilation can also present challenges, especially with patients who present with a beard or edentulism. Intraoral ventilation bypasses difficult mask variables.

    Existing airway devices has not evolved significantly over the last 100 years despite changes in the distal pharynx and redundant tissue. This results in a void in contemporary airway management.

    McMurray’s main goals in creating the MEA were to: 1) help keep patients breathing with ease, and 2) to address a gap in airway tools. In 2019, the McMurray Enhanced Airway (MEA) was launched by McMurray Medical Group, to provide a new multipurpose distal pharyngeal airway (DPA) device to fill the void in airway tools and meet the needs of today’s patients and providers.

    The MEA’s unique design stents open the unconscious patient’s airway beyond the tongue supporting breathing, oxygenation and ventilation. The MEA is fast and easy in establishing upper airway patency to keep patients breathing—a major determinant of patient outcomes.

    The MEA airway device is now used in more than 45 states in the U.S. McMurray Medical Group is an approved vendor in some of the country’s best-known healthcare facilities and academic medical centers, along with multi-clinic systems and outpatient surgery centers. Made in the U.S., the MEA is sold directly as well as through some of the nation’s leading suppliers.

    I invite you to learn more about the McMurray Enhanced Airway.

    • The New Distal Pharyngeal Airway (DPA)-McMurray Enhanced Airway (MEA) to Keep Pa

    This video will explain factors that contribute to upper airway obstruction and compare traditional oral airway use to the new distal pharyngeal airway-the MEA.

Hospital Affiliations

Education & Training

  • Union University
    Union UniversityDoctorate, 2011 - 2013
  • Other
    OtherMasters, 1993

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

  • McMurray Enhanced Airway - Innovation of the Year World EMS, 2021
  • Outstanding Professor Award University of Minnesota Nurse Anesthesia, 2019
  • McMurray Medical - Innovation Award Finalist in Airway Management World Airway Management Meeting in Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2019

Professional Memberships

  • Society for Airway Management (SAM)
    Member
  • Society for Technology in Anesthesia (STA)
    Member
  • Society of Opioid Free Anesthesia (SOFA)
    Member
  • Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI)
    Member
  • American Association of Nurse Anesthetists
    Member
  • Minnesota Association of Nurse Anesthetists (MANA)
    Member
  • American Nurses Association (ANA)
    Member
  • Minnesota Nurses Association (MNA)
    Member
  • Society for Ambulatory Anesthesia
    Member

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

Journal Articles

  • A Survey of Provider Satisfaction of a New, Flexible Extended-Length Pharyngeal Airway to Relieve Upper Airway Obstruction during Deep Sedation  
    McMurray R, Gordon L., Enliven: Journal of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, 6/15/2021
  • Outpatient Surgery Magazine - Keeping Pace with Change By Roxanne McMurray, DPN, APRN, CRNA and founder of McMurray Medical shares important considerations for outpat...  
    McMurray R., Outpatient Surgery Magazine, 1/2021
  • Safe Anesthesia Care During COVID-19 —Take precautions to reduce exposure risks to airborne droplet  
    McMurray R., Outpatient Surgery Magazine, 11/2020
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Abstracts/Posters

  • A Pilot Study of an Innovative Flexible Extended-Length Airway to Relief Upper Airway Obstruction: The McMurray Enhanced Airway
    McMurray R., AANA 2020 Annual Congress, Chicago, 8/2020
  • McMurray R. Innovative airway for deep sedation/MAC: A new solution. The McMurray Enhanced Airway.
    Roxanne McMurray, 2nd World Airway Management Meeting 2019 poster presentation 325, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 11/15/2019
  • Airway Management for Deep Sedation/MAC: Current Practice, Associated Outcomes, Limitations, and Needs as Identified by Survey Results
    McMurray R, Becker L, Frost Olsen K, McMurray M., AANA 2019 Annual Congress, Chicago, Illinois, 8/12/2019

Lectures

  • The Plan B CRNA Podcast Provider Spotlight - Keeping Patients Breathing with the McMurray Enhanced Airway by Roxanne McMurray 
    Host of Plan B CRNA - Bobby Jones - 2/2022
  • Clinical Rounds: CRNA Inventors – Improving Patient Safety Through Innovation 
    AANA Clinical Rounds - Free Webinar - 6/1/2021
  • Keep Breathing: Avoiding Hypoxia with the McMurray Enhanced Airway (MEA) 
    Outcomes Rockets Podcast Interview - 5/2021

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