Day surgery

Advantages are early return to the familiar environment, faster recovery, less stressful, improved patient compliance and satisfaction
Patients need to be selected appropriately (operations should be less invasive, little or no blood loss expected and if the patient hasn't got to many illnesses)
Different anaesthetic techniques can be used (including general, regional anaesthesia and sedation)
Discharge criteria usually include good pain control, no sickness, able to walk and go to the toilet and the ability to drink and eat, the ability to pass water
Patients need to be picked up from the hospital and accompanied home. A partner, friend or relative needs to stay with the patient overnight
Post – operative pain should be well controlled before discharge home and the patient should have received a sufficient supply of pain killers
Very few patienst have to be re-admitted to the hospital if they develop post – operative complications (severe or worsening pain, persistent sickness, inability to pass urine)

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