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 RMV->)The basic model for outpatient surgery has grown from lumps and bumps to a growing number of procedures that not very long ago required an overnight stay. By most measures, this new model of surgical services delivery will not cease any time soon. The forces driving this trend - minimally invasive technologies, new surgical techniques, advances in anesthesia and nausea control, and rising budgetary pressures - remain powerful. In fact, the more "minimally invasive" the approach to surgery, the more likely even patients with comorbidities will be going home sooner.
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