Background: Recent developments in anesthesia applicable to family practice settings are
reviewed. Methods: MEDLINE was searched using the key words “EMLA”;“iontophoresis”;“ …

The use of effective analgesia is vital for any office procedure in which pain may be inflicted.
The ideal anesthetic achieves 100 percent analgesia in a short period of time, works on …

As office-based anesthesia continues to mature as a specialty, we the anesthesia providers
must be proactive in establishing guidelines and recommendations to make the practice …

The development of topical anesthetics has provided the family physician with multiple
options in anesthetizing open and intact skin. The combination of tetracaine, adrenaline …

Office-based anesthesia inherently possesses a number of unique challenges. Providing an
effective anesthetic in this venue requires the use of fast-acting anesthetic agents with a high …

The use of office-based surgery and anesthesia will continue to grow. The anesthesia
community has embraced the opportunity to become a driving force of office-based surgery …

Office-based anaesthesia is a young but rapidly growing speciality practice. In patient
selection, surgical procedures, and anaesthetic techniques this practice is similar to …

In his 1988 book, Doctors: The Biography ofMedicine.: the historian and surgeon Sherwin B.
Nuland teaches that advances in medicine in the past 2500 years have come not from a …

The changing profile of anesthetic practice: an update for internists Page 1 REVIEW The
changing profile of anesthetic practice: an update for internists THOMAS L. HIGGINS, MD • …

Anesthesia has developed from being a procedure each doctor performed on his own
patients when necessary, to a specialty, sometimes practiced part time by family physicians …