Study: Complications more common in office-based surgery
Accreditation Connection, April 4, 2008
A recent study shows that office surgery may be more likely to cause complications than hospital-based surgery. The study, published in Dermatological Surgery, found that office surgeries performed in Florida resulted in 31 deaths and 146 hospitalizations from March 2000 to March 2007, according to the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.
The vast majority of complications arose from the use of general anesthesia rather then local anesthetics, which leave the patient semi-conscious, the study reported.
However, the chairman of Florida's Board of Medicine says the state has toughened the rules surrounding office-based surgery and now require more training, as well as an anesthetist to be present.
As a result, office surgeries have increased. In 1980, fewer than 20% of 10 million surgeries were performed in offices; now about half of 43 million procedures are performed outside hospitals.
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