Alternative-site anesthesia: guidelines affecting clinical care.
The delivery of anesthesia care to patients in alternative sites outside the operating room is a rapidly growing area of clinical activity. We have reviewed our patient care guidelines and standards developed for the operating room and applied them to sites as varied as a magnetic resonance imaging center in radiology to a plastic surgery office. Now specific societies and guidelines are being developed for alternative site practice.
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Department of Anesthesia, Penn State University College of Medicine, 500 University Drive, P.O. Box 850, Hershey, PA 17033, USA.