Surgery
Volume 26, Issue 9 , Pages 374-378, September 2008

Day-surgery guidelines

Anna Lipp MBBS MSc MRCP FRCA is a Consultant Anaesthetist and clinical lead for day surgery at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital Foundation Trust, Norfolk, UK. Conflicts of interest: none declared

James Hernon MA MD FRCS(GenSurg) is a Specialist Registrar in Surgery at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital Foundation Trust, Norfolk, UK. Conflicts of interest: none declared

Abstract 

Day-surgery rates have increased fivefold in the UK in the past 20 years. This is partly due to improvements in surgical and anaesthetic techniques. As experience has grown, both the complexity of surgery and degree of permissible co-morbidity have increased in day-case patients with little evidence that complication rates are increased. Because some of the guidelines relating to day surgery may now be out dated, this article will discuss some of the more controversial issues.

Keywords: day surgery, guidelines, postoperative analgesia, postoperative nausea and vomiting, preoperative assessment

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PII: S0263-9319(08)00179-8

doi:10.1016/j.mpsur.2008.07.009

Surgery
Volume 26, Issue 9 , Pages 374-378, September 2008

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