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Patients often experience anxiety about anesthesia. This anxiety is completely normal, and we expect to encounter it from all of our aesthetic surgery patients.
Please rest assured that Dr. Durkin and the entire staff at Ocean Drive Plastic Surgery have taken every possible precaution to ensure your safety during your procedure. We believe that we have created as safe an environment as possible for our patients.
In our private, on-site surgery center at Ocean Drive Plastic Surgery, we focus on cosmetic procedures of the face, breast, and body.
Our surgery center is Quad A certified, reflecting nationally recognized standards for safety and surgical care. Within our center, we’ve chosen to dedicate that environment specifically to cosmetic surgery. This allows our team, protocols, and surgical approach to stay focused on the needs of aesthetic patients.
Over time, this focus has shaped how we approach anesthesia. Our techniques have been refined to support a smoother recovery, with an emphasis on reducing nausea, discomfort, and post-procedure fatigue. Each anesthesia plan is tailored to the individual, based on your physiology and the procedure being performed.
Patients often notice the difference. Many who have had surgery elsewhere and return to us for a revisional procedure share that their recovery feels easier, with fewer side effects and a quicker return to feeling like themselves.
The experience you have at Ocean Drive® is shaped by the people you see at every step. Every member of our team is carefully selected for their role based on professional experience and a proven track record of delivering an exceptional patient experience.
Our team, including our anesthesia team, works exclusively within Ocean Drive Plastic Surgery. This means the people you meet are part of a consistent, established team, not individuals rotating in to fill a schedule. Many of our anesthesiologists have been part of our surgical program for years and have extensive experience working alongside Dr. Durkin.
All anesthesiologists and clinical team members meet specific credentialing, education, and training standards, with a strong background in plastic surgery. This level of experience, combined with a team that works together every day, creates consistency in how procedures are performed and how patients move through each stage of the process.
From the front office to the operating room to your recovery suite, you will see familiar faces who are part of the same team, working together every day with a focus on your comfort, privacy, and safety.
We believe that the foundation of safety is set long before we go to the operating room.
As such, all patients who will receive any form of anesthetic are required to have a preoperative visit. At this visit, our staff obtains all of your lab work, electrocardiogram (EKG), and any pertinent medical history. We want to do all of the laboratory and EKG work ourselves, so that we can better ensure the quality of the results. Dr. Durkin personally reviews your medical history and then submits all of the pertinent information to our anesthesiologist prior to your surgery. This process is private and HIPAA compliant. If our anesthesiologist has any concerns, they are preoperatively evaluated prior to your procedure. If anesthesia deems the procedure too risky, we refund your money.
Our philosophy of practice is to provide the best possible outcome in the safest possible fashion with the least amount of surgery.
This philosophy translates further into how our anesthesiologist provides anesthesia. We consistently use the least amount of anesthesia necessary for our procedures. For example, our facelift procedures are only done with a twilight level of anesthesia. We do not use breathing tubes, paralysis, or anesthetic gases for any of our facial, or breast procedures. We only use full anesthetics when required for advanced body contouring procedures. Also, we do not require anesthesia for any procedure. While we strongly recommend using anesthesia services, that decision is ultimately up to you, and your decision will guide how we proceed.
Quality control is one of the cornerstones of our success, and we continually reapply ourselves to the highest standards of excellence. There is a clear difference between plastic surgeons that invest in quality control, and those that do not.
We firmly believe in the process of quality evaluation and control and have implemented a risk management program at our office that is lead by our full time Nurse Risk Manager. Our medical quality assurance program includes everything you have read on this page and also includes additional patient care and quality control parameters that we have voluntarily established at our surgery center. These include our privacy policy, surgical procedures, sterilization procedures, and standardization of patient workflow. Please see our page on quality control, and what differentiates our practice from our competitors.
Our operating room is certified by the State of Florida and is subject to both scheduled and random site visits by State Inspectors.
Our medical staff is highly trained and continuously meets and exceeds state healthcare requirements. Furthermore, you are also welcome to come in for a tour of our surgery center anytime provided that we do not have surgery in progress. We are open M-F and love to show off our beautiful state-of-the art plastic surgery center and MedSpa.
All of our medications and medical supplies are purchased within the United States direct through certified, established and reputable vendors. These vendors include Johnson and Johnson, Cardinal Health, Henry Schein, PSS, Mentor, Merz, Valeant Pharmaceuticals, Allergan, and many others.
All purchase orders are done through domestic vendors, and are subject to the rules and regulations of the United States Food and Drug Administration.We NEVER purchase used medical devices from Craig’s List, eBay, used medical suppliers, other physicians, or other 3rd party suppliers. All of our medical devices are insured, inspected, and covered by warranties and/or service agreements. We also never purchase medications, including your anesthesia meds from overseas or 3rd party suppliers. We only buy medications direct from the manufacturer or produces and packages the product. All shipments are carried out in the quickest shipping option available and in accordance with FDA recommend storage guidelines. We do not accept medicines shipped by freight or ground shipping.
Dr. Durkin is dual board certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery and the American Board of Surgery. The American Board of Plastic Surgery is the only certifying board recognized for standards of excellence by the American Board of Medical Specialties.
The American Board of Medical Specialties is the overlord certification body that recognizes appropriate boards of excellence from inappropriate medical boards. The American Board of Medical Specialties does not recognize the American Board of Cosmetic Surgery as a legitimate board for certification or practice. We have associated ourselves with the most rigorous, well respected certifying boards and have avoided the unrecognized and non-standardized boards that unfortunately exist in today’s world. Let us remind you that the ONLY board recognized by the medical community for aesthetic plastic surgery are the American Board of Plastic Surgery and the American Board of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. Dr. Durkin is boarded by ABPS, Dr. Becker is boarded by ABFPRS. Avoid physicians that are members of the American Society of Cosmetic Surgery. They are not formally trained like members of the American Society of Plastic Surgery.
This brief overview hopefully demonstrates our dedication towards safety. While feelings of anxiety regarding anesthesia are normal, please rest assured that every possible precaution has been taken for your procedure.
We are incredibly proud of our process, and we are especially prideful of our patient safety success record. Our practice has never had any adverse events that resulted in patient injury or death. We have never had a patient transferred from our operating room to another facility for medical issues. In short, we have had a flawless safety record since our inception, and we intend to maintain it.
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