Day surgery: implications for general practice

Day surgery: implications for general practice.

it possible to undertake a diverse range of surgical procedures under local anaesthesia, ranging from those requiring only basic surgical skills to more operations that are complex. Most of these take place in the hospital setting. Increasing minor surgery rates in primary care and redistributing selected local anaesthetic procedures away from hospitals for delivery by GPs, GPs with a special i...

Bariatric surgery and the changing current scope of general surgery practice: implications for general surgery residency training.

IMPORTANCE The scope of general surgery practice has evolved tremendously in the last 20 years. However, clinical experience in general surgery residency training has undergone relatively little change. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the current scope of academic general surgery and its implications on surgical residency. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS The University HealthSystem Consortium and A...

Plastic Surgery in General Practice

Minor surgery in general practice.

Cognitive failures after general anaesthesia for day-case surgery.

Patients are normally thought to have recovered from general anaesthesia within a few hours after day-case surgery. Previous recovery studies using objective psychometric tests showed a return to baseline values within this period. Nevertheless, patients are advised about what activities they should not undertake in the subsequent 24 h because it is feared that the residual anaesthetic effects ...