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Regional Anesthesia for Outpatient Surgery

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Outpatient surgery has seen a tremendous increase in volume in recent years. With this increase in volume, an increase in painful, invasive surgery has occurred. A result of this change has been poor outpatient pain control in this surgical setting [1, 2]. This has presented anesthesiologists with a challenging environment, in particular with regard to pain management. Of great value is regional anesthesia.

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology, University of Alabama Hospitals, Birmingham, AL, 35249-6810, USA

    Joshua E. Smith MD

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  1. University Hosp and Ochsner Kenner Hosp, Prof and Chairman,Dept of Anesthesiology, Director of Interventional Pain Mgmt., Louisiana State University School of Medicine, New Orleans, 70112, USA

    Alan David Kaye

  2. Harvard Medical School, Director, Proced Sedation Mgmt & Safety, Assistant Professor of Anesthesia, Anesthesiology, Perioperative & Pain Med, Boston, 02115, USA

    Richard D. Urman

  3. Yale University School of Medicine, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, New Haven, 06520, Connecticut, USA

    Nalini Vadivelu

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Smith, J.E. (2012). Regional Anesthesia for Outpatient Surgery. In: Kaye, A., Urman, R., Vadivelu, N. (eds) Essentials of Regional Anesthesia. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1013-3_29

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