RT Book, Section
A1 Schlosser, Robert J.
A1 Nielsen, Karen C.
A1 Evans, Holly
A1 Klein, Stephen M.
A1 Tucker, Marcy S.
A1 Steele, Susan M.
A2 Hadzic, Admir
SR Print(0)
ID 3507428
T1 Chapter 62. Peripheral Nerve Blocks for Outpatient Surgery
T2 NYSORA Textbook of Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain Management
YR 2007
FD 2007
PB The McGraw-Hill Companies
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071449069
LK accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=3507428
RD 2024/04/20
AB The  development  of  ambulatory  surgery  and  that  of  peripheral  nerve  blocks  (PNBs)  occurred  over  two  separate  historic  timelines.  The  performance  of  outpatient  or  ambulatory  surgeries  commenced  in  the  mid-1800s,  and  its  utilization  rapidly  escalated  throughout  the  next  century.  By  1980,  16.3%  of  all  surgeries  were  performed  on  an  outpatient  basis.  By  1984  this  number  rose  to  30%  and  the  Society  for  Ambulatory  Anesthesia  (SAMBA)  was  born.  The  total  outpatient  rate  approached  50%  by  1990,  60%  in  1997,  and  may  have  hit  70%  in  2003.1,2  During  the  same  span  of  time,  techniques  for  PNBs  were  also  being  discovered.  The  decades  from  1884,  (when  Koller  and  Brettauer  first  instilled  ocular  cocaine  in  Heidelberg,  Germany3)  to  1912  and  1914,  (when  Kappis  and  Heidenhein  described  the  interscalene  block,4)  marked  the  birth  of  PNBs.  Despite  the  coexistence  of  both  ambulatory  anesthesia  and  PNB  techniques  for  over  a  century,  they  were  not  typically  used  concurrently.