Pharmacological intervention for ambulatory surgery

Anesthesia for ambulatory surgery

Ambulatory anesthesia allows quick recovery from anesthesia, leading to an early discharge and rapid resumption of daily activities, which can be of great benefit to patients, healthcare providers, third-party payers, and hospitals. Recently, with the development of minimally invasive surgical techniques and short-acting anesthetics, the use of ambulatory surgery has grown rapidly. Additionally...

Ambulatory surgery for PTFE grafts for dialysis

All prosthetic vascular accesses for hemodialysis performed in an ambulatory surgical setting between January 1992 and December 1996 were reviewed retrospectively. During this period, 400 out of the 450 vascular accesses with PTFE grafts (88.9%) were performed as outpatient cases. All operations were under local aesthesia without premedication. There were no postoperative deaths. Early complica...

Ambulatory surgery for vascular access for hemodialysis.

Ambulatory cardiac surgery.

In order to move toward a program of reliable and routine ambulatory cardiac surgery there must be a paradigm change in the attitude of both patients and caregivers. The status quo must be abandoned and replaced by the pioneering attitude of the early practitioners who formed our specialty.

Ambulatory surgery in Spain

In Spain, ambulatory surgery (AS) is called major ambulatory surgery to emphasise that the focus is on procedures previously or still conducted in an in-patient setting with overnight stay, and that endoscopies and minor surgical excisions are excluded (these procedures were traditionally performed as office procedures). According to the guidelines on major ambulatory surgery produced by the Sp...