A group of anesthesiologists at St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver, Canada, believe a new surgical method involving local anesthesia could speed up orthopedic operations by more than 50 percent, according to a Winnipeg Free Press report.
The surgical method involves the construction of two special operating rooms in the hospital, staffed by a single surgeon and a single anesthesiologist. Patients are given local anesthesia rather than general anesthesia, which allows surgeons to move from one patient to another more easily and lets patients go home less than half an hour after surgery.
In the study, published in the Canadian Journal of Anesthesia, project researcher Steve Head, MD, said the method could increase the number of surgeries each day by at least 56 percent.
Read the Winnipeg Free Press report on anesthesiology.
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The surgical method involves the construction of two special operating rooms in the hospital, staffed by a single surgeon and a single anesthesiologist. Patients are given local anesthesia rather than general anesthesia, which allows surgeons to move from one patient to another more easily and lets patients go home less than half an hour after surgery.
In the study, published in the Canadian Journal of Anesthesia, project researcher Steve Head, MD, said the method could increase the number of surgeries each day by at least 56 percent.
Read the Winnipeg Free Press report on anesthesiology.
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