Dissociative anesthesia in ambulatory plastic surgery: a 10-year experience.
The author describes extensive use of diazepam (Valium) with ketamine as a safe and efficacious technique of dissociative local anesthesia in an ambulatory plastic surgery facility. He finds these agents helpful in rhinoplasty, facial surgery, and breast augmentations as well as all other aesthetic and most reconstructive procedures.
D000556:Ambulatory Surgical Procedures; D000772:Anesthesia, Local; D003975:Diazepam / Q000008:administration & dosage; D006801:Humans; D007649:Ketamine / Q000008:administration & dosage; D013518:Surgery, Plastic
D007649:Ketamine; D003975:Diazepam