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Office-Based Anesthesia and Surgery: Unique Aspects

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Office-based anesthesia and surgery have become increasingly popular over the past few decades. With the advancement in technology, improved available equipment, increased cost of in-hospital healthcare, and decreased overhead costs of office-based procedures; more and more procedures are being performed in a freestanding office. Advantages of office-based surgery include ease of scheduling procedures, convenience for both the patient and the surgeon, decreased costs, and improved patient privacy. With the increasing number of office-based surgery procedures, there has been concern for patient safety. Careful patient selection, obtaining accreditation, staffing facilities with qualified personnel, and having properly functioning equipment, are some measures that can enhance patient safety.

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Abbreviations

OBA:

Office-Based Anesthesia

OBS:

Office-Based Surgery

ASA:

American Society of Anesthesiologists

ISOBS:

Institute for Safety in Office Based Surgery

AAAHC:

Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care

AAAASF:

American Association for Accreditation of Ambulatory Surgery Facilities, Inc

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    Uduak Ursula Williams, Antoinette Van Meter & Pascal Owusu-Agyemang

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Williams, U.U., Van Meter, A., Owusu-Agyemang, P. (2020). Office-Based Anesthesia and Surgery: Unique Aspects. In: Rajan, N. (eds) Manual of Practice Management for Ambulatory Surgery Centers. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19171-9_21

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