Clinics in Plastic Surgery: Outpatient Plastic Surgery

Abstract

Geoffrey R. Keyes and Robert Singer, eds. Clinics in Plastic Surgery: Outpatient Plastic Surgery . New York, NY: Elsevier, 2013. ISBN-10: 1455776068, $129.00. ![Graphic][1] Outpatient Plastic Surgery is a valuable recent addition to the well-established “Clinics in Plastic Surgery” series. With a multidisciplinary pool of 31 authors and 15 chapters, Outpatient Plastic Surgery addresses several categories of topics pertinent to risk reduction, patient safety, and decision-making in the ambulatory surgery setting. Specific patient safety topics are directly addressed, such as deep venous thrombosis prophylaxis, the prevention of surgical site infection, perioperative nausea and vomiting, and hypothermia. Beyond such expected patient safety foci, however, Outpatient Plastic Surgery addresses other topics critical to patient safety, but infrequently addressed. While these topics may not appear at first as intuitively interesting, nonetheless they are just as critical to safe patient care: outpatient facility standards, evidence-based medicine and data sharing, quality assurance, peer review, the use of surgical checklists, and the role of accreditation. Without foundations such as these, the best-intended clinical management may be for naught. The inclusion of such non-traditional topics seems a natural result of the origin of Outpatient Plastic Surgery , authored by … Corresponding Author: Felmont F. Eaves III, MD, FACS, 3200 Downwood Circle, Suite 640, Atlanta, GA 30327. E-mail: felmont.farrell.eaves{at}emory.edu [1]: /embed/inline-graphic-1.gif