title: Feasibility of not having a postoperative control at day-1 after outpatient oculoplastic surgical procedures.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  After outpatient oculoplastic surgical procedures, to report the feasibility of a policy of planning the first post-operative control not at one day after surgery but at the time of suture removal or lacrimal drainage system irrigation.
  
  
  METHODS
  A retrospective case-series chart review analysis in a tertiary referral center of hundred and five consecutive outpatients was performed. Surgical procedures: eyelid (75/105), transpunctal endoscopic lacrimal drainage (11/105), both eyelid and transpunctal endoscopic lacrimal drainage (15/105), orbita soft tissue (4/105).
  
  
  RESULTS
  number of patients who had a first post-operative control for a different purpose than the one planned by the policy and whether it led to additional interventions.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Out of 105 patients, 95 had their first control 12 +/- 4 days (mean +/- SD) after surgery according to the established policy. In 10 patients the first control occurred earlier (3 +/- 1 days) without leading to additional medico-surgical interventions.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  After outpatient oculoplastic surgical procedures, it is possible, with apparently no major consequences, to plan the first post-operative control not on the first day after surgery but later at time of suture removal or lacrimal drainage system irrigation.
authors.affiliation: University of Eye Clinic, Basel, Switzerland.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Keskinaslan
authors.forename: I O
authors.initials: IO
authors.lastname: Haefliger
mesh_terms: D000553:Ambulatory Care / Q000379:methods* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005240:Feasibility Studies; D005858:Germany / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D013508:Ophthalmologic Surgical Procedures / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011182:Postoperative Care / Q000379:methods* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D016896:Treatment Outcome