Awake Plastic Surgery Procedures: The Use of a Sufentanil Sublingual Tablet to Improve Patient Experience.

Plastic surgery procedures including liposuction and facial procedures can be performed with deep sedation or general anesthesia 1 , 2 ; however, there has been an increasing trend for these procedures to be performed with local anesthesia and minimal sedation, in part due to patient preference for awake procedures. 3-5 Minimal sedation is the lowest level of sedation along the continuum of sedation/analgesia described by the American Society of Anesthesiologists ( Table 1 ). 6 With minimal sedation, patients respond normally to verbal commands.

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