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The advent of outpatient surgery revolutionized the medical world during the last century and added new dimensions to both surgery and anesthesia. Ancient Greeks and Egyptians routinely practiced outpatient anesthesia; they used alcohol and opioids for pain relief in the home. In 1842 Crawford Long made a major contribution to surgery by utilizing ether for the first clinical general anesthesia case, which interestingly occurred in the outpatient setting. Most surgeries were then performed in the inpatient hospital. By the early 1900s the first outpatient centers opened, and over the next 60–70 years ambulatory surgicenters, separate from the hospital operating room, began to appear. Outpatient surgery initially was performed on healthy patients and expected to be uncomplicated and brief. As experience has expanded it now includes less healthy patients and longer, more difficult procedures.
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Beltsos, A.N. (2002). Anesthesia in the Office. In: Seifer, D.B., Collins, R.L. (eds) Office-Based Infertility Practice. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-87690-5_8
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