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Ambulatory Surgery and Out-of-OR (OOR) Procedures

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Learn about patient selection, intraoperative management and postoperative care of ambulatory patients

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Health System, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Joshua H. Atkins MD, PhD

  2. Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA

    Jesse M. Ehrenfeld MD, MPH (Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Associate Professor of Surgery, Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Associate Professor of Health Policy, Director Education Research)

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  1. Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, USA

    Jesse M. Ehrenfeld

  2. Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Richard D. Urman

  3. Perioperative Services,Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Department of Anesthesiology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA

    Scott Segal

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Atkins, J.H., Ehrenfeld, J.M. (2016). Ambulatory Surgery and Out-of-OR (OOR) Procedures. In: Ehrenfeld, J., Urman, R., Segal, S. (eds) Anesthesia Student Survival Guide. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11083-7_25

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