Postoperative nausea and vomiting frequently complicate outpatient anesthesia and surgery. The duration of treatment for this complication must occasionally extend beyond discharge from the hospital. In this study, we evaluated the commonly used anti-emetic promethazine for its efficacy in the post-discharge period. Adult outpatient surgical patients who had excessive postoperative nausea and v...

By the end of 2050, the incidences of hip and knee arthroplasties performed in the United States are projected to be more than 1.8 million and 4 million, respectively.1 In 2014 alone, more than 1 million elective lower extremity arthroplasties were performed, with collective per procedure expenditures ranging from $16,500 to $75,000. This disbursement covered surgery, hospitalization, and rehab...

OBJECTIVE To determine obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) surgical volume, types, costs, and trends. To explore whether specific patient and hospital characteristics are associated with the performance of isolated palate versus hypopharyngeal surgery and with costs. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Inpatient and outpatient medical facilities in the United States. SUBJECTS AND METHOD...

One day surgery (ODS) has been performed for many years in our pediatric surgical department. In 1975 we began to discharge children the day after surgery, but they were hospitalized one day before to perform preoperative routine laboratory tests and the anesthetic visit. From 1980 to 1984 the tests and the anesthetic visit were performed some days before scheduled surgery in the consulting roo...

has no one to drive her home and no one to care for her at home after surgery. How would nurses in your ambulatory surgery facility handle this situation? It’s an increasingly important question as the population ages and more surgery is performed on an outpatient basis. “It can be challenging to meet the needs of this age group,” says Donna DeFazio Quinn, RN, BSN, MBA, CPAN, CAPA. “They’re fro...

purpose : to determine the distribution of cataract surgery in iran between 2000 and 2005 methods : in a retrospective study based on files, cataract surgery centers were selected. between 2000 and 2005, one week of each season was selected randomly and all cataract surgery files of the center were studied. the surgeries were analyzed based on type, types of the lenses, intraoperative complicat...

Ear surgery is a very specific area in which the practical skills differ significantly from other branches of surgery. At present, there no standard for training otosurgery worldwide. The study provides data on use virtual simulator with haptic feedback teaching ear and compares objective results working groups residents, outpatient doctors, ENT doctors professional otosurgeons-experts. found t...

recently, small incision cataract extraction by phaco and implantation of a foldable intraocular lense with topical anesthesia has used in an attempt to decrease the complication of general anesthesia and peribulbar injection. to compare effects and complications of topical, local and general anesthesia, 92 patients admitted to imam hosein hospital for cataract surgery, were randomly assigned t...