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Duration of anesthesia as an indicator of morbidity and mortality in office-based facial plastic surgery: a review of 1200 consecutive cases.
Gordon NA, Koch ME. Arch Facial Plast Surg. 2006;8:47-53.

The investigators reviewed records of patients having greater or less than 4 hours of anesthesia in an outpatient setting and found that length of anesthesia was not a marker for poor outcomes.

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