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Regional anesthesia

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Anesthesia for ambulatory surgery must facilitate home-readiness within hours of surgery. Regional anesthesia can fulfill this requirement by providing excellent intraoperative anesthesia while minimizing postoperative pain, sedation, nausea, and vomiting when compared to general anesthesia and opioid analgesia.1–5 Single-injection peripheral nerve blocks with long-acting local anesthetic can prolong these benefits. Furthermore, continuous catheter techniques can facilitate same-day discharge of patients having more complex and painful surgical procedures.6–8 When appropriate patient education and follow-up are provided, ambulatory discharge of a patient with an insensate extremity can be extremely safe and should be associated with very few complications.9

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

    Holly C. L. Evans MD, FRCP(C) (Assistant Professor) & Karen C. Nielsen MD (Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology)

  2. Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA

    Susan M. Steele MD (Professor of Anesthesiology)

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn

    Rebecca S. Twersky MD, MPH (Professor and Vice Chair for Research, Medical Director) (Professor and Vice Chair for Research, Medical Director)

  2. Ambulatory Surgery Unit, Long Island College Hospital, Brooklyn, NY, 11203, USA

    Rebecca S. Twersky MD, MPH (Professor and Vice Chair for Research, Medical Director) (Professor and Vice Chair for Research, Medical Director)

  3. Harvard Medical School, USA

    Beverly K. Philip MD (Professor of Anaesthesia, Director) (Professor of Anaesthesia, Director)

  4. Day Surgery Unit, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, 02115, USA

    Beverly K. Philip MD (Professor of Anaesthesia, Director) (Professor of Anaesthesia, Director)

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Evans, H.C.L., Nielsen, K.C., Steele, S.M. (2008). Regional anesthesia. In: Twersky, R.S., Philip, B.K. (eds) Handbook of Ambulatory Anesthesia. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-73329-6_8

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