Office-Based Outpatient Plastic Surgery Utilizing Total Intravenous Anesthesia

Total intravenous anesthesia for major burn surgery.

UNLABELLED Total intravenous anesthesia (TIVA) is frequently used for major operations requiring general anesthesia in critically ill burn patients. We reviewed our experience with this approach. METHODS During a 22-month period, 547 major burn surgeries were performed in this center's operating room and were staffed by full-time burn anesthesiologists. The records of all 123 TIVA cases were ...

Anesthesia for minor surgery in the office or outpatient department.

The current role of total intravenous anesthesia in cardiac surgery: total intravenous anesthesia and cardiopulmonary bypass.

From the Department of Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine, Golden Jubilee National Hospital, Clydebank, Scotland. S.S. is a consultant for Fresenius Kabi and has been for Covidien and Mylan in the past. Supported by Mylan Specialty, LP (Canonsburg, PA), which provided funding for editorial assistance. Address reprint requests to: Stefan Schraag, MD, PhD, Department of Anesthesia and Periope...

Sevoflurane versus total intravenous anesthesia for cardiac surgery

Objective: To compare the effect of sevoflurane and total intravenous anesthesia (TIVA) on anesthesia induction, maintenance and postoperative recovery in patients receiving cardiac surgeries. Methods: Overall, 80 patients admitted in our hospital to receive cardiac surgery between January 2015 and January 2017 were enrolled in our study. They were randomized into the sevoflurane anesthesia (SA...

Regional anesthesia for outpatient surgery.

In summary, regional techniques offer significant advantages in the outpatient setting. They can avoid the side effects of nausea, vomiting, and pain that frequently delay discharge or cause admission. They can also provide prolonged analgesia as well as offer, with the use of continuous catheters, the promise of a pain-free perioperative period. The choice of drugs must be carefully adjusted, ...