Whenever a patient is about to receive sedation or general anesthesia, no matter what the technique, the preoperative assessment of the airway is one of the most important steps in ensuring patient safety and positive outcomes. This article, Part III in the series on airway management, is directed at the ambulatory office practice and focuses on predicting the success of advanced airway rescue ...

BACKGROUND It is unclear when it is safe to discharge patients with a diagnosis of Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) after ambulatory surgical procedures due to concern for postoperative respiratory compromise and hypoxemia. Our OSA patients undergoing ambulatory-type orthopedic procedures are monitored overnight in the PACU, thus we reviewed patient records to determine incidence of complications....

Post operative nausea and vomiting (PONV) remains an unpleasant and persistent problem for patients undergoing surgery. In fact PONV are among the most important factors contributing to delay in discharge of patients and an increase in unanticipated admissions after ambulatory surgery. Anesthesia providers are most often blamed for PONV, sometimes rightfully so, many times wrongly so. PONV is a...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the medium-term outcome and patient's satisfaction after Single-incision mini-sling (SIMS) procedure done under local anesthesia in ambulatory set up for patients with stress urinary incontinence (SUI). MATERIALS AND METHODS This is a retrospective cohort study, including all patients submitted to SIMS procedure for SUI with MiniArc (AMS, U.S.A) without concomitant surge...

Various anesthetic techniques including local, regional, and general anesthesia have been utilized for ambulatory arthroscopic knee surgery. The choice of anesthetic technique for this surgical procedure can have a significant impact on postoperative recovery, side effects, and p a g p m 0 p p s e o ©

The authors report the use of a low-cost method of providing prolonged patient controlled anesthesia at the surgical site following elective forefoot surgery performed in ambulatory surgical settings. In this series of 54 patients there were no postoperative complications and 95.92% of patients believed the device helped to control their post-operative pain. © 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights rese...