Aesthetic plastic surgery
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Aesthetic plastic surgery · Jan 1999
Propofol-ketamine technique: dissociative anesthesia for office surgery (a 5-year review of 1264 cases).
Propofol-ketamine technique is a room air, spontaneous ventilation (RASV), intravenous dissociative anesthetic technique which simulates the operating conditions of general anesthesia without the increased equipment requirements or costs. A total of 2059 procedures were performed on 1264 patients by 38 different surgeons. ⋯ All patients were pleased with their anesthetic and no hallucinations were reported. Cost:benefit analysis is presented as well as discussion of dissociative anesthesia being exempt from current California law (AB595).