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Preoperative Management

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  • “Ambulatory surgery” is defined as surgical procedures requiring at least local anesthesia, which are more complex than office-based procedures but less complex than operations requiring at least an overnight stay.

  • Approximately 90 % of anorectal surgery to treat fissures, condyloma, fistulas, certain early tumors, hemorrhoids, and pilonidal disease may be suitable for the ambulatory setting.

  • The Standards Committee of the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons (ASCRS) has developed a Clinical Practice Guideline about Ambulatory Anorectal Surgery, for practitioners and health care workers, to provide current information from the literature upon which decisions can be made.

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  1. Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, 2123 Auburn Ave, No. 524, Cincinnati, OH, 45219, USA

    Janice F. Rafferty MD

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  1. Department of Colon and Rectal Surgery, Ochsner Clinic Foundation, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

    David E. Beck

  2. Department of Colorectal Surgery Digestive Disease Center, Cleveland Clinic Florida, Weston, Florida, USA

    Steven D. Wexner

  3. Department of Colorectal Surgery, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Digestive Disease Institute, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

    Tracy L. Hull

  4. Department of Colon and Rectal Surgery, Lahey Hospital and Medical Center, Burlington, Massachusetts, USA

    Patricia L. Roberts

  5. Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery, Loyola University Medical Center Professor of Surgery, Head, Maywood, Illinois, USA

    Theodore J. Saclarides

  6. Chairman, Surgical Disciplines, Central Michigan University School of Medicine, Mount Pleasant, Michigan, USA

    Anthony J. Senagore

  7. Department of Surgery John E. Connolly Chair, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine, Irvine, California, USA

    Michael J. Stamos

  8. University of Washington Department of Surgery, Madigan Army Medical Center Department of Colon & Rectal Surgery, Fort Lewis, Washington, USA

    Scott R. Steele

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Rafferty, J.F. (2014). Preoperative Management. In: Beck, D., et al. The ASCRS Manual of Colon and Rectal Surgery. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8450-9_8

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