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Archive >  Ambulatory Anesthesia 2006

Just How Safe Is Ambulatory Anesthesia?

Our panel of experts weighs in on the safety of anesthesia.

Dianne Taylor, Contributing Editor

Is anesthesia getting safer? What are the biggest risks of modern anesthesia? How can you work to address them? To get a sense of the issues and answers, we interviewed practitioners who've taken the time to examine them. Over the next several pages, our group talks about issues ranging from airway management to runaway sedation and from obesity to office-based surgery. Here's what they had to say.

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