TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Chapter 62. Peripheral Nerve Blocks for Outpatient Surgery 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 Y1 - 2007 N1 - T2 - NYSORA Textbook of Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain Management 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. SN - PB - The McGraw-Hill Companies CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/10/14 UR - accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=3507428 ER -