title: [Major outpatient surgery in urology: our experience].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This paper describes our MAS (major ambulatory surgery) unit and its application in urology.
  
  
  METHODS
  We reviewed our series of 415 patients seen over a period of 14 months; of these, 71 (17%) did not meet the criteria and the remaining 344 patients (83%), with ages ranging from 6 months to 78 years, were treated in our MAS unit. Surgery was performed for circumcision, cryptorchidism, PVCP and hydrocele.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Only 2 (0.5%) of the patients were hospitalized and 5 (1.4%) were reoperated. The degree of patient satisfaction was over 90%.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  1. MAS is efficacious in providing care and efficiently resolves difficult urological cases. 2. Patient satisfaction is very high and there were only a few complications in the patients treated in this unit.
authors.affiliation: Hospital Virgen de la Salud, Toledo, España.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sampietro Crespo
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Vaquerizo Gareta
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Fernández Durán
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Fernández Gómez
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Zazo Romojaro
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Alvarez Fernández
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gómez Rodríguez
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000556:Ambulatory Surgical Procedures / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005832:Genital Diseases, Male / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D017060:Patient Satisfaction / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012086:Reoperation / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D013030:Spain; D014572:Urology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data