For outpatients, does regional anesthesia truly shorten the hospital stay, and how should we define postanesthesia care unit bypass eligibility?

Anesthesiology

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 3-6

  Williams, Brian A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANESTHETIC AGENT; FENTANYL; KETOROLAC; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; PARECOXIB;

AMBULATORY SURGERY; ANALGESIA; ANESTHETIC RECOVERY; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MOVEMENT; BREATHING; CONSCIOUSNESS; EDITORIAL; HAND SURGERY; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NERVE BLOCK; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; OUTPATIENT; OXYGEN SATURATION; PATIENT MONITORING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; SCORING SYSTEM;

AMBULATORY SURGICAL PROCEDURES; ANESTHESIA RECOVERY PERIOD; ANESTHESIA, CONDUCTION; ANESTHETICS; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; NARCOTICS; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; OUTPATIENTS; PATIENT DISCHARGE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE;

EID: 3042634110     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-200407000-00003     Document Type: Editorial

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