Nonoperating room anesthesia

Abstract

Anesthesia services outside central surgical facilities (nonoperating room anesthesia, NORA) have become more important. Nonoperating room anesthesia is achallenging field with awide range of patient ages and interventions. The anesthesiologist is caught between the existing expertise in sedation, respiratory and emergency management and the fact that it may be apotentially avoidable cost factor. The efforts of some specialist departments to carry out sedation themselves even with more complex interventions have therefore increased. In order to permanently establish anesthesia here, apart from the pure anesthesiological expertise, apronounced willingness to interdisciplinary communication and cooperation is necessary. Only in this way can the participating specialist disciplines be convinced of the anesthesiological added value for the patient. Groups of patients requiring special attention include pediatric patients. The care especially for children under 2years old also requires the particular anesthesiological expertise of the supervising anesthesiologist; however, profound knowledge, for example in cardiac anesthesia, is also required if special interventions are decentrally managed in the cardiac catheterization laboratory.