Types of office-based anesthetics.

Over the past several decades, there have been evolutionary changes in both surgery and anesthesia. Newer anesthetics have excellent safety profiles and are associated with fewer hemodynamic side effects and rapid elimination from the body. Innovative surgical techniques are less invasive and cause less perioperative patient pain.

Anesthesia for cosmetic surgery.

Increasing numbers of plastic surgery procedures are performed in diverse environments, including traditional hospital operating rooms, outpatient surgery centers, and private offices. Just as plastic surgeons develop areas of specialization to better care for their patients, anesthesiologists have specialized in outpatient plastic surgery, both cosmetic and reconstructive. The methods they utilize are similar to those for other procedures but incorporate specific techniques that aim to better relieve preoperative anxiety, induce and awaken patients more smoothly, and minimize postoperative sequelae of anesthesia such as nausea and vomiting.

Providing safe sedation/analgesia: an anesthesiologist's perspective.

Over the past several years office-based procedures with sedation have become increasingly more common. It must be appreciated that not all procedures are well suited for this type of environment. Unacceptable ones would include those associated with significant fluid shifts, post-operative pain, bleeding or procedures of long duration.

The safety and efficacy of regional anesthesia in an office-based setting.

Study Objective: To determine the safety and efficacy of regional anesthesia techniques when administered in the office-based setting.

Design: Retrospective chart review.

Setting: Free-standing orthopedic office with an operating room suite.

Office-based surgery: expanding the role of the anesthesiologist.

Office-based anesthesia (OBA) has developed in the United States as an important field for the anesthesia provider. Both the numbers and types of procedures performed in offices around the country have steadily increased, as has the invasiveness of these procedures. New anesthetic considerations arise.

A survey evaluating the training of anesthesiology residents in office-based anesthesia.

Study Objective: To determine the current status and future plans of residency programs to train residents in office-based anesthesiology (OBA), which is rapidly emerging as an important specialty within the field of anesthesiology.

Design: Survey questionnaire.

Setting: University hospital.

Advances in office-based anesthesia.

Purpose Of Review: The practice of office-based anesthesia is quickly emerging as an important field for the anesthesia provider. The number of procedures being done in offices around the country has steadily increased, as has the invasiveness of these procedures. This creates new anesthetic considerations.