The Safety of Office-Based Surgery

Office Surgery Incidents: What Seven Years of Florida Data Show Us

“…These data reveal and solidify some disturbing trends, which have been previously identified in analyses of portions of this data 1–6 . Because the data have accumulated over 7 years, the pattern of deaths and injuries has remained consistent with the first year of data 1 .…”

Feasibility of In-Office Endoscopic Sinus Surgery with Balloon Sinus Dilation

“…20 The plastic surgery, oral surgery, and gynecologic literature describe efficiencies when performing certain procedures in the office versus the OR. 8,9 In otolaryngology, anesthesia avoidance and eliminated physician travel time are identified advantages of office-based procedures. 13 Office-based rhinologic procedures have precedents.…”

Outpatient dermatology major surgery: a 1‐year experience in a Spanish tertiary hospital

“…With the aim of promoting effectiveness and efficiency, it has become necessary to incorporate dermatological surgery into AMS units so that medium and high complexity operations, traditionally carried out on hospitalized patients, are performed on an outpatient basis 7 . Costs are thereby reduced, 9 as are the inherent risks associated with hospitalization, 10 without increasing other alternative risks 12–14 and, at the same time, minimizing inconveniences to patients and their family as a result of hospital admission. Moreover, using an outpatient facility results in more productive surgical activity, independent of bed availability, and avoids the need for pre‐anaesthetic consultation when local anaesthesia is used.…”

“…In recent years major surgery on an outpatient basis has received considerable worldwide attention, which is reflected in numerous publications, 1,15–19,26–28 and in the organization of congresses on a national and international scale. Nevertheless, although we have found publications on the use of dermatological AMS in specific cases 13,20,21,25 and general recommendations regarding their implementation, 22–24 or studies of their complications, safety and cost efficiency, 9,10,12–14,29 we have not come across medical literature concerning the experiences of dermatologists in such units. For this reason we reported our daily medical practice experience in order to demonstrate that dermatological surgery has its place in standard AMS healthcare because the quality of care it offers is as good as that achieved in surgery involving hospitalization.…”