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Monitored Anesthesia Care

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The term “monitored anesthesia care” (MAC) does not describe a distinct type of anesthesia or a certain level of sedation. Rather, it describes a specific service where an anesthesia care provider has been requested to participate in the care of a patient undergoing a diagnostic or a therapeutic procedure. In MAC, the anesthesia care provider provides a number of services specific to patient care. These services include, but are not limited to, pre-procedure evaluation, intra-procedure care, as well as post-procedure management.

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  1. Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, USA

    Ihab Adly Riad

  2. Regional Anesthesia, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA

    Ihab Adly Riad

  3. Department of Regional Anesthesiology, Fairview General Hospital, Cleveland, OH, USA

    Ihab Adly Riad

  4. Anesthesia for Bronchoscopic Surgery, Center for Sedation, Departments of General Anesthesiology and Outcomes Research, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA

    Basem Abdelmalak

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  1. Departments of General Anesthesia and Outcomes Research, Anesthesiology Institute, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Case Western University, Cleveland, OH, USA

    Ehab Farag

  2. Center for Anesthesiology Education, Anesthesiology Institute, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, USA

    Maged Argalious

  3. Department of General Anesthesia, Anesthesiology Institute, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA

    John E. Tetzlaff

  4. Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

    Deepak Sharma

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Riad, I.A., Abdelmalak, B. (2018). Monitored Anesthesia Care. In: Farag, E., Argalious, M., Tetzlaff, J.E., Sharma, D. (eds) Basic Sciences in Anesthesia. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62067-1_26

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