title: Outpatient gynecologic procedures.
abstract: The majority of gynecologic surgical procedures can be performed on an outpatient basis. Utilization of outpatient surgical centers helps reduce the cost of health care, lessens the disruption of patients' personal lives, and promotes their recovery through early ambulation and a lower incidence of postoperative nosocomial complications. Patient education and improvements in anesthetic and surgical techniques will allow additional and more complicated gynecologic procedures to be performed in outpatient surgical centers. In doing so, the surgeon must not increase the overall risk of the procedure or compromise the surgical technique in a way that may produce a result that is not as good or as durable as the same procedure performed on an inpatient basis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond.
authors.forename: W G
authors.initials: WG
authors.lastname: Hurt
mesh_terms: D000028:Abortion, Induced / Q000379:methods; D000556:Ambulatory Surgical Procedures; D000758:Anesthesia / Q000379:methods; D004107:Dilatation and Curettage / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D005831:Genital Diseases, Female / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D015907:Hysteroscopy; D010535:Laparoscopy