title: Evidence-based patient safety advisory: patient selection and procedures in ambulatory surgery.
abstract: Despite the many benefits of ambulatory surgery, there remain inherent risks associated with any surgical care environment that have the potential to jeopardize patient safety. This practice advisory provides an overview of the preoperative steps that should be completed to ensure appropriate patient selection for ambulatory surgery settings. In conjunction, this advisory identifies several physiologic stresses commonly associated with surgical procedures, in addition to potential postoperative recovery problems, and provides recommendations for how best to minimize these complications.
authors.affiliation: Arlington Heights, Ill. From the American Society of Plastic Surgeons' Patient Safety Committee.
authors.forename: Phillip C
authors.initials: PC
authors.lastname: Haeck
authors.forename: Jennifer A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Swanson
authors.forename: Ronald E
authors.initials: RE
authors.lastname: Iverson
authors.forename: Loren S
authors.initials: LS
authors.lastname: Schechter
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Singer
authors.forename: C Bob
authors.initials: CB
authors.lastname: Basu
authors.forename: Lynn A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Damitz
authors.forename: Scot Bradley
authors.initials: SB
authors.lastname: Glasberg
authors.forename: Lawrence S
authors.initials: LS
authors.lastname: Glassman
authors.forename: Michael F
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: McGuire
mesh_terms: D000556:Ambulatory Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods*; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D018579:Patient Selection; D012449:Safety
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