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er's recommendations for maintenance.
You'll also need an anesthesia department or service that's eager to participate
and innovate both clinically and financially. Providers interested in improving
care and cutting costs should thoroughly explore the informative "Gas Man"
website (see "Effective Low-Flow Training") to ensure the low-flow program
they launch is safe and effective.
Selling surgeons on low flow is easy if you focus on the positives. When
you tell them patients won't be retching and vomiting in recovery, that they
won't have to wait 3 hours to speak to patients and their caregivers before
they can leave for the day, they'll warm to the idea. After that, it's up to anesthesia providers and their monitors to deliver lower gas flows safely, so you
enjoy lower overhead costs, nurses recover patients faster and surgeons see
better outcomes. OSM
Dr. Gevirtz (cliffg evirtzmd@yahoo.com) is the medical director of the Intervention
Pain Clinic at St. Barnabus Hospital in New York City and of the ambulatory and officebased anesthesia division of Somnia Anesthesia Services in New Rochelle, N.Y.
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