Multiple plastic surgery procedures are safe
One of the recommendations that we have had is related to multiple cosmetic surgery procedures. Why do we say that? Well it can shorten recovery time (since your total time is shorter than what it would be if you recovered from each procedure one after another), reduce the overall cost, and also reduce the risk since you are in the operation room for a shorter period of time. But one concern among many of you has been that if you are under anesthesia for too long, what are your risks for injury or death?
A new study may have answered the question and eliminated any doubts about the safety of multiple plastic surgery procedures. According to this study published in the Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery, the length of time patients spend under anesthesia during outpatient facial plastic surgery procedures does not appear to be linked to their risk of injury or death.
“Contrary to reports that longer procedure duration causes a higher incidence of intractable postoperative nausea, vomiting and pain, thus necessitating higher precautionary hospitalization rates if performed in the office-based environment, we had no cases with any of these complications,” the authors report. “Overall, we had no cases of major morbidity in which procedure duration was directly related to the complication or in which inpatient care would have prevented major morbidity events from occurring or being treated optimally.”
So the message here is that if your surgeon suggests multiple procedures for you, it is a good idea to go ahead. Just make sure that you pick the right plastic surgeon so that s/he will also have a good anesthesiologist partner.
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