Systematic Review on the Safety of Outpatient Upper Airway Surgery for Obstructive Sleep Apnea Patients in Ambulatory Surgical Centers
The take-home point. In Dr. Nord's practice, airway-surgery patients like the ones in this review are kept for twenty-three-hour observation, and that includes B-R-P. The decision this paper touches is whether B-R-P patients could move to same-day discharge from a surgery center. This review does not supply the evidence for that move. Its patients were mostly classic U-triple-P patients treated in hospitals. And its headline admission rate, a little more than one in twenty, sits above the authors' own three percent bar. What it does add is useful for counseling and for teaching. Serious…
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