To determine which anesthesia services are commonly delivered outside the operating room, ABC collected data from five large practices in Florida, New Jersey, Illinois, Wisconsin and California.
Non-OR anesthesia represented between 2 and 3 percent of services for the five sample practices, which provided data for the years 2015 to 2019.
The top five non-OR anesthesia procedures:
1. Cardioversion
2. MRI of the brain
3. Pacemaker insertion
4. Bronchoscopy
5. MRI of the spine
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