[Future perspectives for anesthesia induction and recovery]

The provision of separate rooms for the induction of anesthesia and the recovery phase is said to allow for a higher frequency of surgical procedures. However, the use of special rooms for the recovery phase is unnecessary from a practical and economic point of view. The availability of separate rooms for the induction of anesthesia may be important whenever the frequency of regional anesthesia is high. The induction of general anesthesia in low-risk patients can be performed in the operating room (OR) without too much delay between cases. Anesthesia in high-risk patients should be induced and reversed in the OR while problems of monitoring during transport remain unsolved.