One major by‎-product of the aging baby‎-boom generation has been a surging interest in cosmetic surgery‎.‎ Out‎-patient cosmetic surgery clinics have sprouted up in droves all over the U‎.‎S‎.‎‎,‎ and the number of cosmetic procedures performed in 2005 increased by over 95% from the previous year‎.‎ Although procedures like facelifts and abdominoplasties ‎(‎the ‎'‎tummy‎-tuck‎'‎‎)‎ are considered minimally invasive‎,‎ the anesthetic protocols and regimens here are often overly complex and unnecessarily toxic‎.‎ Major complications involving anesthesia in this ‎(‎and any other‎)‎ surgical milieu can range from severe post‎-operative nausea and vomiting ‎(‎PONV‎)‎ to neuromuscular spasticity to mortality‎.‎ The mortality spectrum of things may be rare‎,‎ but there have been many cases in which perfectly healthy cosmetic surgery patients require emergency intervention due to a severe complication involving anesthesia‎.‎ In recent years‎,‎ many new anesthetic protocols have been developed to reduce the incidence of PONV and other complications‎,‎ while ensuring that effective pain management and level of ‎'‎un‎-awareness‎'‎ during surgery is always maintained‎.‎