title: [Ambulatory surgery: current status and prospects].
abstract: Ambulatory Surgery (AS) was born some 20 years ago in USA pushed by economic requirements and rapidly spread over the European countries as one of the main factors of progress in health care. The Authors, after evaluating the actual situation of AS in the international literature, report their personal experience from January 1991 to December 1994. The series includes 810 surgical operations performed as outpatients procedures with immediate discharge. The following types of anaesthesia were used: local infiltration (86.6%), monolateral ultraselective spinal (10%), blended or general (3.4%). Hernias of the abdominal wall, varicose veins and anorectal diseases were the more frequent pathologies operated on. Results of surgery are satisfactory supporting the advantage of AS such as the absence of complications due to anaesthesia and hospital stay, the better relationship between patient and surgeon, the short return to working activities. AS proves its value on the clinical and socio-economic grounds provided that a well organised program and careful selection of patients are adopted. No extemporary organisation are advisable.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Scienze Chirurgiche e Trapianti d'Organo, Università degli Studi di Cagliari.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Sias
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Licheri
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Secci
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Farci
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Loi
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Pisano
authors.forename: G M
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Daniele
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000556:Ambulatory Surgical Procedures / Q000639:trends; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations
vernacular_title: Chirurgia ambulatoriale: stato attuale e prospettive.