Boston—Even some of the sickest of patients can undergo ambulatory surgery, an analysis has concluded. ASA physical status IV patients can be treated successfully on an outpatient basis, the researchers found, even though such patients are more than twice as likely to need hospital admission than their healthier counterparts.
“Last year, I presented a poster on unplanned admissions across our ambulatory surgery caseload,” said Caryn M. Hertz, MD, an associate professor of