Ambulatory Surgery During First Eight Month Applications In Our Clinic

Abstract

Ambulatory surgery has been increasingly performing in our country. We had discussed our results in our ambulatory surgery clinic during eight months period. All patients underwent ambulatory surgery in our clinic from 4th January 2007 to 31th August 2007 enrolled in this study. Preoperative, peroperative and postoperative results were reviewed retrospectively for all patients. Patients demographic data, departments performed surgery, operations, duration of surgery, ASA classification, anesthesia methods and applied medicines, intra- and postoperative complications, postoperative recovery time from anesthesia, discharge ratio and times were all evaluated.In our outpatient surgery clinic,.since 4th January 2007, 1542 patients had been operated. While %67.83 of all patients were ASA I, %21.27 of all patients were ASA II and %10.24 of all patients were ASA III. The most common operations were excision of mass and biopsy applications. The most frequently used type of anaesthesia was local anesthesia. The most common regional technic was spinal anesthesia. Postoperative mean recovery time from anesthesia was 27.07±13.98minutes. Thanks to advances in surgery and anesthesiology, a lot of anesthesia techniques could be performed safely with proper patient and anesthesiologic techniques selection in ambulatory clinics.