San Diego—One of the first studies of its kind has established an important reference point for national death rates associated with common ambulatory surgical procedures.
The investigation found that these procedures are exceedingly safe, although they show marked variation by procedure type. The study was presented at the 2021 annual meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (abstract A1005).
“In 2019 and 2020, the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project [HCUP] released a