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Regional Anesthesia in Ambulatory Surgery

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Ambulatory surgery or day surgery (DS) refers to the clinical, organizational, and administrative possibility to perform diagnostic and/or therapeutic procedures, invasive or semi-invasive, in patients whose hospitalization is limited to 1 day [1].

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De Robertis, E., Romano, G.M. (2016). Regional Anesthesia in Ambulatory Surgery. In: Chiumello, D. (eds) Topical Issues in Anesthesia and Intensive Care. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31398-6_12

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