NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. — Patient factors that can impact outcomes after same-day total joint reconstruction should be modified, if possible, and patients who cannot be optimized should be excluded from same-day surgery, a presenter said.
“The key in whatever we do is that we have to have great surgeons, great anesthesia, great team and a great facility with the equipment so that we can provide safety to the patients,” Leopoldo Rodriguez, MD, MBA, FAAP, FASA, SAMBA-F, an anesthesiologist and immediate past president of the Society for Ambulatory Anesthesia (SAMBA), said at the