Professional paper

Organisation of day surgery service

Vesna Golubović ; Department of Anaesthesiology, Reanimatology and Intensive Care, Medical Faculty, University of Rijeka, Braće Branchetta 20, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia
SNJEŽANA GOLUBOVIĆ ; Department of Anaesthesiology, Reanimatology and Intensive Care, Medical Faculty, University of Rijeka, Braće Branchetta 20, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia

Abstract

The Department of Health (DH) proposes that 75% of elective surgery
should be performed as a day case procedure. It is estimated that in the Unated States of America USA 83% surgeries are performed as a day case surgery (DCS). A number of synonyms exsits for the term day case surgery such as out-patient surgery, ambulatory surgery, one-day surgery. The main purpose of DCS is to perform surgery of selected patients to hospital for a planned surgical procedure, returning home on the same day.

Day surgery service is a part of healthcare centres and are usually performed by general, regional and local anaesthesia or sedation that require short postoperative care and thus not requiring hospitalisation. Day surgery procedures have been introduced gradually and have come to represent a very hight proportion of some surgical procedures.

Keywords

day case surgery; organisation; treatement

Hrčak ID:

69026

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/69026

Publication date:

1.6.2011.

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