title: [Outpatient ENT surgery in a district hospital].
abstract: Our experience in out-patient surgery from October 1994 to July 1996 is reported. Patients were selected using anesthesiology criteria (anesthetic risk I or II, psychosocial criteria, operation time less that 1 h 30 min, age > 6 years). One hundred seventy-eight patients underwent surgery: 61 direct suspension laryngoscopy, 50 adenoidectomy, 48 septoplasty, 10 functional endoscopic sinus surgery, 8 myringotomy, and 1 nasal decortication. Fourteen patients (7.86%) required hospital admission. No patients required ENT care in the first 24 hours after release from the Ambulatory Surgery Unit.
authors.affiliation: Servicio de ORL, Hospital Lluís Alcanyís, Xàtiva, Valencia.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Pérez Garrigues
authors.forename: M D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Sánchez-Alcón
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Tortosa
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Díaz
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Seijas
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Gisbert
mesh_terms: D000556:Ambulatory Surgical Procedures; D006767:Hospitals, District; D006801:Humans; D010038:Otorhinolaryngologic Diseases / Q000601:surgery*; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013030:Spain
vernacular_title: Cirugía ambulatoria en ORL en un hospital de distrito.