The recovery care after ambulatory surgery is in a state of flux. There is increasing emphasis on rapid discharge home after ambulatory surgery. Discharge after surgery should be based on clinical criteria rather than based on time. Recent studies suggest that the insistence on oral intake and voiding before discharge is unnecessary and can delay discharge. This article reviews the recent devel...

background: the most expensive variable in the operating room (or) is time. lean process management is being used in the medical field to improve efficiency in the or. streamlining individual processes within the or is crucial to a comprehensive time saving and cost-cutting health care strategy. at our institution, one hour of or time costs approximately $500, exclusive of supply and personnel ...

a 53-year-old male was referred to our department for refractory primary hypertension. despite high doses of 6 anti-hypertensive drugs, ambulatory monitoring of blood pressure (bp) revealed a mean bp of 160/90 mmhg. under local anaesthesia, renal denervation with radiofrequency was performed supported by high-resolution 3d angiography, which helped confirm the position of the applications in a ...

Background: Investigations of the impact sepsis on Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group performance status (ECOG PS) fully ambulatory patients are scarce.

To the Editor of "The Indian Medical Gazette." Sir,?I should be interested to know from your readers whether it is at all common to find mild fever and slight glandular swellings in persons who have been working amongst plague patients. In the past few months, I have come across five medical practitioners who stated that after examining many plague patients they experienced tenderness and some ...

To determine the prognostic significance of ambulatory blood pressure, we prospectively followed for up to 7.5 years (mean, 3.2) 1187 subjects with essential hypertension and 205 healthy normotensive control subjects who had baseline off-therapy 24-hour noninvasive ambulatory blood pressure monitoring. Prevalence of white coat hypertension, defined by an average daytime ambulatory blood pressur...

BACKGROUND Socialized health systems face fiscal constraints due to a limited supply of resources and few reliable ways to control patient demand. Some form of prioritization must occur as to what services to offer and which programs to fund. A data-driven approach to decision making that incorporates outcomes, including safety and quality, in the setting of fiscal prudence is required. A value...

BACKGROUND It is uncertain whether ambulatory blood-pressure measurements recorded for 24 hours in patients with treated hypertension predict cardiovascular events independently of blood-pressure measurements obtained in the physician's office and other cardiovascular risk factors. METHODS We assessed the association between base-line ambulatory blood pressures in treated patients and subsequ...

as any therapeutic or diagnostic surgical procedure performed under general, regional, or local anesthesia, with or without sedation, which requires short-stay postoperative care rather than admission to hospital. According to the International Association for Ambulatory Surgery, the procedure should not be urgent, should be performed within a single normal working day, and should not require m...