Procedure explanation
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Who is watching you while you are asleep, and where
Draft body, not yet adapted
Facial surgery here is performed in an accredited operating suite with a board-certified anaesthesiologist present for the entire case, and that sentence contains three separate things worth checking anywhere you consult. Accreditation of the facility means an external body has inspected the equipment, the emergency protocols and the staffing. A board-certified anaesthesiologist is a physician specialist, which is not the same as a nurse anaesthetist working under supervision, and neither arrangement is wrong but you are entitled to know which one you are getting. Present for the entire case means one clinician whose only job is you, continuously, rather than a surgeon managing sedation while also operating. Ask what the plan is for an emergency, where the nearest hospital is, and what the transfer agreement says. These are ordinary questions and any surgical practice should answer them without hesitation or discomfort. If the answers are vague, that is the finding.
Call to action. Ask three questions: who administers, are they present throughout, and what is the transfer plan.