What is Office Based Anesthesia (OBA)?

There has been an ever increasing growth in health care practitioners that develop their own office operating rooms or procedure rooms. This expansion necessitates more complex procedures requiring sedation and anesthesia services.

Office Based Anesthesia represents a provision of anesthesia services in a health care provider's office setting, that is not technically licensed as an Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) or hospital.

Key benefits include cost effectiveness by eliminating facility fees associated with hospitals and surgery centers, convenience and flexibility through scheduling advantages and patient comfort in familiar settings, increased procedures and services by enabling complex cases previously referred elsewhere, patient comfort through full general anesthesia without sedation fluctuations, and surgical focus as the anesthesiologist monitoring allows practitioners to concentrate entirely on procedures.

The American Society of Anesthesiologists stipulates that all anesthetics in an OBA setting should be delivered by or under the medical direction of an anesthesiologist.

Prime Anesthesia provides complete mobile anesthesia services, bringing emergency medications, equipment, reversal agents, and backup airway devices to office locations.