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Quality of Care Differs by Patient Characteristics: Outcome Disparities After Ambulatory Surgical Procedures

American Journal of Medical Quality, 2007
The surgery literature is filled with reports on racial or gender disparities in quality. However, whether patient demographics are risk factors for complications or death from ambulatory surgical procedures is unknown. This study explores whether racial, age, and gender outcome disparities exist after ambulatory surgeries.
L. Steven Brown, Askar Chukmaitov, Charles Saunders, Nir Menachemi, Robert G. Brooks   +4 more
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Unanticipated hospital admission in pediatric patients with congenital heart disease undergoing ambulatory noncardiac surgical procedures

Pediatric Anesthesia, 2018
SummaryBackgroundAn increasing number of surgical and nonsurgical procedures are being performed on an ambulatory basis in children. Analysis of a large group of pediatric patients with congenital heart disease undergoing ambulatory procedures has not been undertaken.AimsThe objective of this study was to characterize the profile of children with ...
Koichi Yuki, Sophia Koutsogiannaki, Sandra Lee, James A. DiNardo   +3 more
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High-risk surgical procedures and semi-emergent surgical procedures for ambulatory surgery

Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology, 2020
Purpose of review This review evaluates more complex surgical procedures to see whether they might be suitable for ambulatory surgery. Operations that have shown an increasing daycase rate in England include thyroidectomy, joint arthroplasty, spinal surgery and hysterectomy, and these procedures are evaluated.
M. Skues
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Prophylactic Intravenous Administration of Caffeine and Recovery After Ambulatory Surgical Procedures [PDF]

Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 1997
To determine whether prophylactic intravenous administration of caffeine, to daily caffeine users, decreases the frequency of postoperative headache and shortens recovery time.The study was a prospective, randomized, double-blind investigation with predetermined sample size and statistical power.After Mayo Institutional Review Board approval and ...
Jacqueline J. Arnold, Joseph G. Weber, Jacinta T. Klindworth, Mark H. Ereth, David R. Danielson   +4 more
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Single visit surgery for pediatric ambulatory surgical procedures: a satisfaction and cost analysis

Journal of Pediatric Surgery, 2018
Single visit surgery (SVS) consists of same-day pre-operative assessment and operation with telephone post-operative follow-up. This reduces family time commitment to 1 hospital trip rather than 2-3. We began SVS for ambulatory patients with clear surgical indications in 2013.
Gail E. Besner, Natalie Huibregtse, R. Lawrence Moss, Jacob K. Olson, Denis R. King, Terrence M. Rager, Sarah Gartner, Lisa A. Deming   +7 more
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Supplemental Oxygen After Ambulatory Surgical Procedures

SURVEY OF ANESTHESIOLOGY, 1988
The aim of this study was to determine the need for supplemental oxygen during recovery from general anesthesia for ambulatory surgery in healthy women without obesity or respiratory disease. Arterial oxygen saturation by pulse oximetry (SpO2) was monitored throughout the first postoperative hour in 164 patients.
Daniel B. Raemer, Richard W. Morris, R S Murray   +2 more
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Older Adults and Unanticipated Hospital Admission within 30 Days of Ambulatory Surgery: An Analysis of 53,667 Ambulatory Surgical Procedures

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2015
ObjectivesTo evaluate whether age is independently associated with greater rate of unanticipated hospital admission within 30 days of ambulatory surgery.DesignRetrospective database study.SettingThe 2012 National Surgical Quality Improvement Project data set.ParticipantsAll individuals with “outpatient” recorded as their status in the data set ...
Lee A. Lindquist, Nicholas J. Hackett, Jane L. Holl, Gildasio S. De Oliveira, Robert J. McCarthy, John Y.S. Kim   +5 more
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The Safety of Hand and Upper-Extremity Surgical Procedures at a Freestanding Ambulatory Surgery Center

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, 2016
Background: More procedures are being completed on an outpatient basis at freestanding ambulatory surgery centers. The purpose of our study was to determine the safety and rate of adverse events in outpatient hand and upper-extremity surgical procedures.
Sameer Jain, Kanu S. Goyal, Glenn A. Buterbaugh, Joseph E. Imbriglia   +3 more
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Intravaginal Slingplasty (IVS): An Ambulatory Surgical Procedure for Treatment of Female Urinary Incontinence

Scandinavian Journal of Urology and Nephrology, 1995
A new ambulatory procedure for treatment of female urinary incontinence (intravaginal slingplasty, IVS) was performed on 50 patients. In all patients the surgical procedure was carried out under local anaesthesia and without postoperative urinary catheterization. The technique has been elaborated from previous experimental and clinical studies and aims
Peter Petros, Ulf Ulmsten
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13. The impact of government regulation of ambulatory surgical facilities on access to elective surgical procedures

Clinical & Investigative Medicine, 2007
Advances in medical technology have made free-standing ambulatory surgery centres a cost-effective method of delivering health care in the United States. One: Rapid expansion of such centres and duplication of services have raised concerns over rising health care costs, two: leading to government regulation of facilities via a Certificate of Need (CON)
E. Fric-Shamji, M. Shamji
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