Alternate-Site Anesthesia: Clinical Practice Outside the Operating Room

The changing socioeconomic basis of medical care and anesthesia practice has resulted in drastic changes in the clinical demands made on anesthesia caregivers. Interventional medicine is increasingly required outside the traditional operating room setting, and often outside the hospital altogether. Current and potential sites include radiology suites, interventional neuroradiology units, psychiatry units, the emergency department, outpatient clinics and physicians' offices. New drugs and mobile monitoring technology promote the development of these mobile anesthesia services. All the possibilities are explored in this timely overview of this new field for anesthesiologists.

* ·Examines new developments in telemedicine, telesurgery, and teleanesthesia *
· Discusses the expanding role of sedation techniques *
· Explores fiscal responsibility of new anesthesia developments