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Perioperative Care of Ambulatory Anaesthesia

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Ambulatory surgery colloquially defined as any surgical procedure or any outpatient intervention where in an outpatient setup the patient is discharged on the same working day is being practiced with the main goals of curtailing economic burden and preventing and family stresses that occur when the hospital stay is prolonged. Nevertheless, it needs all the preoperative care that admitted patient need.

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Agarwal, A., Kishore, K. (2014). Perioperative Care of Ambulatory Anaesthesia. In: Khan, Z. (eds) Airway Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08578-4_4

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