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- Title
Safety considerations with the current ambulatory trends: more complicated procedures and more complicated patients.
- Authors
Steven Young; Osman, Brian; Shapiro, Fred E.
- Abstract
In the last quarter of a century, the backdrop of appropriate ambulatory and office-based surgeries has changed dramatically. Procedures that were traditionally done in hospitals or patients being admitted after surgery are migrating to the outpatient setting and being discharged on the same day, respectively, at a remarkable rate. In the face of this exponential growth, anesthesiologists are constantly being challenged to maintain patient safety by understanding the appropriate patient selection, procedure, and surgical location. Recently published literature supports the trend of higher, more medically complex patients, and more complicated procedures shifting towards the outpatient arena. Several reasons that may account for this include cost incentives, advancement in anesthesia techniques, enhanced recovery after surgery protocols, and increased patient satisfaction. Anesthesiologists must understand that there is a lack of standardized state regulations regarding ambulatory surgery centers and office-based surgery centers. Current and recently graduated anesthesiologists should be aware of the safety concerns related to the various non-hospital-based locations, the sustained growth and demand for anesthesia in the office, and the expansion of mobile anesthesia practices in the US in order to keep up and practice safely with the professional trends. Continuing procedural ambulatory shifts will require ongoing outcomes research, likely prospective in nature, on these novel outpatient procedures, in order to develop risk stratification and prediction models for the selection of the proper patient, procedure, and surgery location.
- Subjects
AMBULATORY surgery; PATIENT selection; SURGICAL clinics; MEDICAL offices; PATIENT satisfaction; HOSPITAL patients
- Publication
Korean Journal of Anesthesiology, 2023, Vol 76, Issue 5, p400
- ISSN
2005-6419
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4097/kja.23078