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Anesthesia for Office Based Cosmetic Procedures

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Office based anesthesia has grown in popularity in parallel with cosmetic procedures over the past decade. This is due to newer and safer anesthetic techniques combined with minimally invasive and novel surgical methods, allowing more procedures to be completed at out of hospital settings.

One of the main concerns of office based procedures is patient safety along with the availability of personnel and equipment to deal with complications and emergencies.

This chapter discusses the anesthetic management and techniques for office based cosmetic procedures, patient and procedure selection, office preparedness and patient safety.

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Sally S. Dawood M.D. & Michael Stuart Green D.O., M.B.A.

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  1. Hospital University Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

    Basavana G. Goudra

  2. Department of Anesthesiology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

    Michael Duggan

  3. Department of Anesthesiology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

    Vidya Chidambaran

  4. University Hospitals Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

    Hari Prasad Krovvidi Venkata

  5. Emory University Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

    Elizabeth Duggan

  6. University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA

    Mark Powell

  7. All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, Delhi, India

    Preet Mohinder Singh

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Dawood, S.S., Green, M.S. (2018). Anesthesia for Office Based Cosmetic Procedures. In: Goudra, B., et al. Anesthesiology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74766-8_27

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