Main description:

This key resource provides insight and guidance to managing ambulatory surgery centers (ACSs) from a broad spectrum of expertise. Intended for a wide audience of healthcare professionals, this book covers topics such as regulatory issues, outpatient pediatric anesthesia, inventory management, personnel training, the culture of safety, and sedation standards. The format found in each chapter is designed intentionally to function as an educational manual. Many chapters are supplemented by high quality figures and tables to aid in visual learning.

This text brings together authors from diverse professions including lawyers, administrators, surgeons, anesthesiologists and architects - all of whom have contributed their expertise to address the multitude of subjects that pertain to ASCs. Manual of Practice Management for Ambulatory Surgery Centers: An Evidence-Based Guide is a concise and evidence-based guide to successfully operating the modern health care facilities that have transformed the outpatient experience for millions of people.

Contents:

Chapter 1: ASC Design and Construction

William R. Phillips, PhD

Chapter 2: Obtaining ASC Contracts and Responding to RFPs

Judith Jurin Semo, PLLC

Chapter 3: Nuts and Bolts of Ambulatory Anesthesia Billing

Jason Habeck, MD; Kumar G. Belani, MBBS, MS, FAAP

Chapter 4: Sterile Processing and Infection Control in ASCs

Rita Mack, RN, BSN, MHA; Niraja Rajan, MD

Chapter 5: Scheduling: Optimal Block Schedule, Improving Utilization

Mitchell H. Tsai, MD, MMM; David W. Sobel, MD; Jaspinder Sra, MD;

Steven D. Boggs, MD, MBA

Chapter 6: Lean Management: Inventory, Waste Management

Ahmad Elsharydah, MD, MBA; Maria A. Michaelis, MD, FASA; Niraja Rajan, MD, FAAP

Chapter 7: Perioperative Surgical Home Principles Applied to the Ambulatory Setting

Timothy Del Rosario, MD; Jarrett Heard, MD, MBA; Michael Guertin, MD, MBA; David S. Beebe, MD; Kumar G Belani, MBBS, MS

Chapter 8: Enhanced Recovery Program in the Ambulatory Surgery Setting

Girish P. Joshi, MBBS, MD, FFARCSI

Chapter 9: Medication Safety: Unique Aspects in ASCs

Neil S. Bailard, MD

Chapter 10: Sedation Guidelines

Rosalind Ritchie-Dabney, M.D., Uma Ramesh Parekh, MBBS, FRCA

Chapter 11: Monitors and Equipment for the Ambulatory Surgical Care Setting

Tjorvi E Perry, MD, MMSc, Kumar Belani, MD

Chapter 12: PACU Management: Unique Concepts to ASCs

Fatima Ahmad, MD, Niraja Rajan, MD

Chapter 13: EHR - Incorporating Into Practice - Using Data Meaningfully, Obtaining Benchmarking and Metrics Information

Stanford Plavin, M.D.

Chapter 14: Accreditation for the Ambulatory Surgery Center

Steven Butz, MD, Irving Hirsch, MD

Chapter 15: HR Issues: Sexual Harassment, Workplace Diversity, Cultural Sensitivity, Privileging, Credentialing, Denying Privileges, Difficult Conversations

Marjorie P. Brennan, MD, MPH, Niraja Rajan, MD

Chapter 16: Risk Management and Quality Improvement

Jeffrey W. Lee, MD

Chapter 17: Culture of Safety

Brennan, MD, MPH, Shaina Drummond, MD

Chapter 18: Education and Training: Staff and Facility

Catherine Chiu, M.D., Sakura Kinjo, M.D.

Chapter 19: Emergency Preparedness in Ambulatory Surgery Centers and Office-Based Anesthesia Practices

Shaina Drummond, MD, Michael O'Rourke, MD

Chapter 20: Office-Based Anesthesia and Surgery: Unique Aspects

Uduak Ursula Williams, MD; Antoinette Van Meter, MD; Pascal Owusu-Agyemang, MD

Chapter 21: Pediatric Anesthesia

Chhaya Patel, MD, Claude Abdallah, MD, MSc