Is It Safe To Have A Tummy Tuck Performed In The Doctor's Office?
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Is It Safe To Have A Tummy Tuck Performed In The Doctor's Office?
Generally it is safe to have a tummy
tuck performed in the plastic surgeon's office (not really
in his office but rather the operating room (OR) in his
office facility). You can increase your safety and peace of
mind by..
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Making sure the doctor is a board certified cosmetic plastic surgeon who specializes in tummy tuck cosmetic surgery.
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Checking out the doctor's history and experience.
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Checking out the operating facility to make sure it is an accredited facility that has the correct people and equipment to handle any emergency that may arise. (This is the big advantage that having a tummy tuck performed in a hospital has rather than at the surgeon's facility. If something really goes wrong and the plastic surgeon can't handle it, they may have to transport you to a hospital for emergency treatment. Precious time can be wasted.)
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New York, NY (July 12, 2007) - The American Society for Aesthetic
Plastic Surgery (ASAPS) announced today that ambulatory
abdominoplasty (“tummy tuck”) may be safely and effectively
performed at an accredited outpatient surgery facility. Findings
from a retrospective analysis of outpatient abdominoplasty
procedures performed over the past ten years are published in the
May/June 2007 issue of the Aesthetic Surgery Journal (ASJ), the
Societys official peer-reviewed journal. According to ASAPS data,
abdominoplasty is one of the top five cosmetic surgical procedures
performed in the United States, with approximately 172,500 tummy
tucks performed in 2006, compared with just 34,000 in 1997.
“Even though these procedures are commonly performed on an
outpatient basis, we had few large, published studies to support
outpatient abdominoplasty as a safe and effective operation,” said
W. Grant Stevens, MD, lead author of the study. “This large,
long-term study clearly illustrates that these procedures may be
safely performed in an accredited outpatient facility.”
The study consisted of a retrospective review of 519 consecutive
abdominoplasty procedures performed over 10 years at a single
outpatient surgery facility certified by the American Association
for Accreditation of Ambulatory Surgery Facilities. All procedures
were performed by one of two senior surgeons, and all patients
received general anesthesia administered by a board-certified
anesthesiologist. The outpatient complication rates in this
outpatient study, including seroma (10.6%) and unacceptable
abdominal or umbilical scars (7.9%), compared favorably with
previously published complication rates for inpatient procedures.
The authors cautioned, however, that although outpatient
abdominoplasty is safe and effective, proper follow-up care is
imperative, and patients need to have responsible caretakers stay
with them after surgery. source:
http://www.surgery.org/press/news-release.php?iid=480
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