Breast cancer surgery in an ambulatory setting

Undergraduate surgical education in an ambulatory surgery setting

Ambulatory surgery is now well established as an effective method to treat a wide range of surgical conditions. This has resulted in many surgical cases no longer being available as teaching resources for surgical students undertaking their clinical clerkship on a surgical ward. Changes in the final year surgical curriculum at the University of Adelaide resulted in the formation of a day surger...

Guidelines for setting up an ambulatory surgery center.

Adopting Ambulatory Breast Cancer Surgery as the Standard of Care in an Asian Population

Introduction. Ambulatory surgery is not commonly practiced in Asia. A 23-hour ambulatory (AS23) service was implemented at our institute in March 2004 to allow more surgeries to be performed as ambulatory procedures. In this study, we reviewed the impact of the AS23 service on breast cancer surgeries and reviewed surgical outcomes, including postoperative complications, length of stay, and 30-d...

Preventing spread of 'super bugs' in the ambulatory surgery setting.

Spine Surgery in an Ambulatory Setting: What Can Be Done Safely?

T hefirst ambulatory surgery center was established in 1970 in Phoenix, Arizona by two surgeons with a vision of providing more convenient surgical services to their community. Twelve years later, Medicare approved the first payments to ambulatory surgery centers, sparking an era of substantial growth. By 1988, there were 1000 ambulatory surgery centers in the United States, and today more than...