Audra Webber, MD
San Diego—A survey by the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia (SPA) found that many ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) do not have specific body mass index percentile criteria for case suitability, despite widespread agreement that childhood obesity is associated with increased perioperative morbidity and should be accounted for in the patient’s ASA classification.
“The amount of pediatric ambulatory surgery performed in the United States has been increasing on a