Dr. Edwin Perez works as an anesthesiologist with Garden State Pain in Clifton, New Jersey. In this role, Dr. Edwin Perez primarily works with patients who will not need to undergo lengthy hospital stays after their operations, or those who are in for same-day surgeries.
Same-day surgeries, also referred to as outpatient surgeries, currently make up more than half of elective surgeries in the United States, and this trend is expected to continue over the next decade. The growth of this field of medicine comes from a combination of improved techniques, better instruments, and better team approaches which involve both a surgeon and an anesthesiologist. Most who undergo same-day surgeries are otherwise healthy people, and these surgeries tend to be minor or intermediate in nature.
Same-day surgeries have several logistical benefits. Often, they can be performed in a surgeon's office rather than requiring an operating room. This, coupled with the short or nonexistent hospital stay following the surgery, significantly reduces health care costs.
