Causes of Delays in the Ambulatory Surgery Center Setting: A Keen Grasp of the Obvious?

Affiliations

¹ From the Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Management, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas.
² Department of Surgery and Perioperative Care, Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas.

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Girish P Joshi et al. Anesth Analg. 2021.

. 2021 Dec 1;133(6):1402-1405.

doi: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000005445.

¹ From the Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Management, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas.
² Department of Surgery and Perioperative Care, Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas.

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