title: [Ambulatory urological surgery].
abstract: Ambulatory surgery offers to patients to be treated on an outpatient basis. Strict criterious, social, surgical and medical must be associated to authorize this type of hospitalisation. From January 1998 to December 1999, 1882 patients (46% of our operative activity) were treated on an outpatient basis, to undergo an endoscopic surgery (66%), conventional surgery (20%) or other (14%). 9 patients remain a supplementary night because of post-operative fever in 5 patients and an incomplete recovery in 4 patients. No patient was rehospitalized for complication. In this series, ambulatory surgery has proved its advantages, without loss of patients' security, if selection criterious were respected.
authors.affiliation: Service d'Urologie, Hôpital la Rabta, Tunis, Tunisie.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Attyaoui
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Barrak
authors.forename: M Y
authors.initials: MY
authors.lastname: Binous
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Kbaier
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Horchani
mesh_terms: D000556:Ambulatory Surgical Procedures / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000379:methods / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D004724:Endoscopy / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000379:methods / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D007902:Length of Stay / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D018579:Patient Selection; D015397:Program Evaluation; D014416:Tunisia; D013520:Urologic Surgical Procedures / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000379:methods / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*