Hello and welcome back to Ackrak. I'm Jed Walpaw, and I'm thrilled to be doing another

keyword episode with the one and only Dr. Tim Kaishtura. We are going to tackle ambulatory

anesthesia today. It's a topic that's big enough that we're just doing the one and it is

definitely something you're going to see asked about a lot on your boards. It's becoming a bigger and

bigger topic. And so I think this is going to be really helpful for folks and I'm excited that

Tim is here to do it. Tim, welcome back to the show.

Thank you.

Pleasure to be here as always.

How should we start?

I think with a little bit of an overview.

So like you said, we're doing anesthesia for ambulatory surgery and always worth looking at the actual content outlines to know what they exactly wants you to know.

Here it's under advanced topics, clinical subspecialties, and that's where anesthesia for

ambulatory surgery falls. It's point number 10, and it's divided into four subcategories,

patient selection and preoperative management, anesthetic management. The third one is discharge criteria

and post-operative follow-up, including continuous nerve blocks, and the fourth is office-based anesthesia,

and they want you to know equipment, safety, organization, and patient management for those.

And like you said, it's a big episode. We'll spend the whole episode, big topic, we'll spend the

whole episode talking about it. And while it won't be quite even, I think we might as well break

things up into those four subcategories. And this topic presents a bit of a unique challenge

to discuss. Since doing anesthesia in an ambulatory setting still requires all of our other

anesthesia knowledge, and we could cover a textbook

of material. The subcategories help a little bit, but if you think about preoperative

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