Day surgery guidelines

Publication date: Available online 9 November 2019Source: Surgery (Oxford)Author(s): Monalisa J. MarbaniangAbstractDay surgery has made major strides in keeping with advances in surgical and anaesthetic techniques. Patient and financial benefits of early ambulation and enhanced recovery programmes are well recognized. The NHS Modernisation Agency recommends that 75% of all surgical procedures performed in a Trust should be done as day case procedures. National and international interest in day case surgery guidelines and pathways on: patient care, facilitating admission and discharge, and logistical aspects of running a day case unit have helped tremendously in the growth of day case surgery. Patient groups and surgical procedures that can be done as day case procedures are ever evolving. Patient safety has been paramount in all these ventures. Selected urgent and emergent surgical procedures are also increasingly considered safe to be delivered as day case procedures.
Source: Surgery (Oxford) - Category: Surgery Source Type: research