Safety of Tumescent Liposuction Under Local Anesthesia in 9,002 Consecutive Patients.

Background: Liposuction has become one of the most popular aesthetic procedures today. Among the different anesthesia methods, tumescent local anesthesia (TLA) has been shown to be the safest. Liposuction is typically performed as an outpatient procedure under minimal oral sedation and without the need for any intravenous (IV) fluid administration.

Weight loss and its relation to fat aspiration yields in liposuction: a survey in 48 patients.

Background: Liposuction surgeons often observe individually fluctuating amounts of aspirated fat. In patients with sagging skin due to previous weight loss there is a tendency of decreased fat aspiration volumes.

Objective: To study the influence of weight loss on fat aspiration volumes in a series of 48 patients.

Safety of tumescent liposuction under local anesthesia in a series of 4,380 patients.

Background: Liposuction is increasingly performed under local anesthesia and in an outpatient setting. The term 'tumescent liposuction' has been used in the literature in patients receiving other forms of anesthesia as well, hence the confusion regarding the safety profile of liposuction performed under local anesthesia alone.

Objective: To analyze the safety of tumescent liposuction performed under local anesthesia in a larger group of patients.