OBJECTIVE To determine the overall and complication-related readmission rates within 30 days after ambulatory surgery at a major ambulatory surgical center. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA Currently in North America, 65% of the surgical procedures are carried out in ambulatory settings. The safety of ambulatory surgery is well documented, with low rates of adverse events during or immediately after s...

Aims: The effect of periodic biannual oral care under ambulatory general anesthesia for patients with intellectual disabilities who are markedly uncooperative undergo. Methods: The details of dental procedures were compared retrospectively between the cure group (58 patients with intellectual disabilities who visited our hospital after the appearance of a symptom such as pain) and the care grou...

Purpose: To determine factors associated with patient disposition status other than discharge to their customary residence (DCR) after elective, ambulatory inguinal hernia repair (IHR). Materials and methods: N= 7953 patients who underwent IHR were identified in the National Survey of Ambulatory Surgery (NSAS). Disposition status was examined by age, sex, race, type of anesthetic, anesthesia pr...

The aim of this study was to evaluate our 5 year experience in the surgery of umbilical (UH) and epigastric hernias (EH) on an ambulatory basis. Sixty three point seven of UH (88/138) and 68.4% of EH (13/19) could be successfully operated in our ambulatory unit. Morbid obesity, ASA III-IV and insulin dependent diabetes were exclusion criteria. After a preoperative local anesthesia infiltration ...

Currently, an estimated 65% of surgical procedures in North America are completed in ambulatory settings. In this review, we summarize the outcome measures that can be used in the assessment of the safety of ambulatory surgery and anesthesia. © 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

The dynamic growth of surgery in general and plastic surgery in particular has resulted in a greater number of ambulatory surgery centers. The ambulatory surgery center, as well as the plastic surgeon’s office, offers a more streamlined, cost-effective practice setting for the plastic surgeon. With the continued rise of healthcare costs, patients and physicians are electing to utilize ambulator...

BACKGROUND The office-based surgery setting potentially offers advantages to both the patient and the plastic surgeon, but some patients may not be considered good candidates for abdominoplasty or combined abdominoplasty/lipoplasty performed in the ambulatory setting. OBJECTIVE We conducted a retrospective case review of 22 patients who underwent ambulatory abdominoplasty to correct diastasis...

nique: dissociative anesthesia for office surgery: a five year review of 1264 cases. Aesthetic Plast Surg 1999;23:70 3. Song D, Greilich NB, White PF, Watcha MF, Tongier WK. Recovery profiles of outpatients undergoing unilateral inguinal herniorraphy: a comparison of three anesthetic techniques. Anesth Analg 1999; 88:S30 4. Liu SS, Strodtbeck WM, Richman JM, Wu CL. A comparison of regional vers...