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  3. Anesthesia in Cosmetic Surgery
  • Cited by 5
  • Edited by Barry Friedberg, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
August 2009
Print publication year:
2007
Online ISBN:
9780511547218
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511547218
Subjects:
Anesthesia, Intensive Care, Pain Management, Medicine
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Book description

One major by-product of the aging baby-boom generation has been a surging interest in cosmetic surgery. Out-patient cosmetic surgery clinics have sprouted up in droves all over the U.S., and the number of cosmetic procedures performed in 2005 increased by over 95% from the previous year. Although procedures like facelifts and abdominoplasties (the 'tummy-tuck') are considered minimally invasive, the anesthetic protocols and regimens here are often overly complex and unnecessarily toxic. Major complications involving anesthesia in this (and any other) surgical milieu can range from severe post-operative nausea and vomiting (PONV) to neuromuscular spasticity to mortality. The mortality spectrum of things may be rare, but there have been many cases in which perfectly healthy cosmetic surgery patients require emergency intervention due to a severe complication involving anesthesia. In recent years, many new anesthetic protocols have been developed to reduce the incidence of PONV and other complications, while ensuring that effective pain management and level of 'un-awareness' during surgery is always maintained.

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'…there is nothing in print remotely as up to date or comprehensive … you would be well advised to give this book serious consideration.'

Source: Anaesthesia and Intensive Care

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Contents
  • 15 - Psychological Aspects of Cosmetic Surgery
    pp 182-198
    • By David B. Sarwer, Ph.D., Departments of Psychiatry and Surgery, The Edwin and Fannie Gray Hall Center for Human Appearance and the Weight and Eating Disorders Program, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, Canice E. Crerand, Ph.D., Departments of Psychiatry and Surgery, The Edwin and Fannie Gray Hall Center for Human Appearance and the Weight and Eating Disorders Program, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, Lauren M. Gibbons, B.A., Departments of Psychiatry and Surgery, The Edwin and Fannie Gray Hall Center for Human Appearance and the Weight and Eating Disorders Program, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA

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