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Canadian Journal of Anesthesia, Vol 27, 409-411, Copyright © 1980 by Canadian Anesthesiologists' Society

Anaesthesia for Day-Care Surgery: A Symposium (III)

Anaesthesia for Adult Surgical Out-Patients

BRIAN DAWSON 1 and WALLACE A. REED 1

1 Phoenix Surgicenter, Phoenix, Arizona

This discussion is based on the experience of the Phoenix Surgicenter,® where over 60,000 patients have been anaesthetized since 1970. Patients accepted for out-patient surgery are ASA Status I or II, although status III patients may be included if their co-existing disability is under excellent control.

Eighty-five per cent of adult patients receive general anaesthesia. A wide variety of local and regional anaesthetic techniques may be used. Efforts during recovery are directed towards preparing the patient for discharge in a "home ready" condition for safe handling by attending relatives.

The common complications have been postoperative nausea or emesis and hypotension. The hospital transfer rate has been 0.2 percent.

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Presented as a Panel at the Annual Meeting, Canadian Anaesthetists' Society, June 1979.




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