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OR Excellence Proceedings - December 2013

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ORX Proceedings 2013_Layout 1 12/6/13 11:23 AM Page 62 Are You Pushing the Patient Safety Envelope? Knowing when to operate is knowing when not to operate. W hy do some outpatient surgery centers push the boundaries of safe surgical care by operating on heavier, sicker and older patients? "Follow the money," says Ashish Sinha, MD, PhD, assistant professor of anesthesiology and perioperative medicine at Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia, Pa. "It's the driving force." For example, says Dr. Sinha, if everyone who qualified for weight-loss surgery — patients with BMI over 40kg/m2 or BMI over 35kg/m2 with comorbidities that would n BALANCING ACT Outpatient facilities must be profitable and safe for patients, says Ashish Sinha, MD, PhD. respond to intervention — opted for surgery, facilities would be vying for 100 million potential patients. Inpatient weight-loss surgery costs about $25,000, explains Dr. Sinha. But in the outpatient set- 6 2 S U P P L E M E N T T O O U T PAT I E N T S U R G E R Y M A G A Z I N E O N L I N E | D E C E M B E R 2013

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