Beyond the OR Walls: How Office-Based Anesthesia is Decentralizing Healthcare

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Office-based anesthesia (OBA) is no longer the “wild west” of healthcare. It’s a thriving, highly specialized branch of anesthesia practice that’s changing the way patients experience surgery. In this episode, Lynn and Garry take you inside the rapidly growing world of OBA, where 10 million procedures a year are now performed outside hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers. They explore why patients and providers are embracing this setting, the evolving safety standards, and the anesthetic techniques that make it work.

Here’s some of what you’ll hear in this episode:

📈 OBA is booming –…