Author: Jonathan Pontell, MD
Medically Reviewed On: November 17, 2009
There are a number of different settings where this surgery can be performed, including hospital operating rooms, surgicenters and outpatient office operating rooms.
If patients are having surgery performed in an office operating room, they should make sure that the anesthesia is administered by a licensed anesthesiologist or nurse anesthetist, and that all of the same monitoring equipment present in a hospital operating room, such as EKG and blood oxygen level monitors, will be in the office for their surgery.
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