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Anesthesia in Cosmetic Surgery
Edited by Barry L. Friedberg
263 pp, $95.50
New York, NY, Cambridge University Press, 2007
ISBN-13: 978-0-5218-7090-0
JAMA. 2008;299(12):1483-1484.
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Cosmetic surgery is a lucrative, fee-for-service, office-based business. For the surgeon it offers convenience, saves time, and generates additional income from facility fees. For the anesthesiologist, it offers a new challenge and business opportunity. This textbook is a timely treatment of many aspects of the fast-growing field of office-based surgery and anesthesia. Most of the contributors are not academicians but physicians who own or manage office-based surgery units or provide anesthesia services.
The book is divided into 3 parts. In the first section (chapters 1-10), the contributors praise minimally invasive anesthesia as a technique for office-based surgery. The technique in this context is a propofol infusion combined with a single 50-mg dose of ketamine. The technique relies heavily on maintaining the bispectral index (Aspect Medical Systems Inc) at a level of 65 to 75 and uses no advanced airway devices. Local analgesia is provided by lidocaine injections. In chapter 3, . . . [Full Text of this Article]
Andranik Ovassapian, MD, Reviewer
Department of Anesthesia
Airway Study and Training Center
University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois
aovassap@dacc.uchicago.edu
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