Dissociative anesthesia in ambulatory plastic surgery: A 10-year experience
- 1 December 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Aesthetic Plastic Surgery
- Vol. 9 (4) , 255-256
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01571043
Abstract
The author describes extensive use of diazepam (Valium) with ketamine as a safe and efficacious technique of dissociative local anesthesia in an ambulatory plastic surgery facility. He finds these agents helpful in rhinoplasty, facial surgery, and breast augmentations as well as all other aesthetic and most reconstructive procedures.Keywords
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