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Archive > June, 2010 Vol. XI, No. 6

The Tug-of-War for High-Risk Patients

As the battle for patients heats up, are your anesthesia providers too conservative when it comes to taking on challenging cases?

Irene Tsikitas, Associate Editor

Opening your doors to potentially challenging cases can boost your bottom line, but to do it safely, you've got to develop effective strategies for assessing and accommodating higher-risk patients. "But where do you draw the line?" asks anesthesiologist Philip Bilello, MD, of Paoli (Pa.) Surgery Center — a question anesthesia providers are asking with increasing frequency given today's older, heavier, sicker patients. Unfortunately, just as there's no cookbook answer to know if your providers are too conservative with patient selection, there are no hard-and-fast rules to determine which patients are good candidates for surgery in an ASC and which should be done in a hospital.

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