Five hundred and twenty-five primary arthroscopic anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction cases were retrospectively evaluated at our hospital with respect to operating room time, operating room cost, and hospital charges. Three main areas were financially analyzed: outpatient vs inpatient surgery, meniscus tears, and ACL grafting techniques. Patients who had their surgery done as an ou...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Previous studies evaluating vertebral augmentation procedure costs have not made detailed comparisons between vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty. Our study contrasts hospital costs for vertebroplasty versus kyphoplasty for the treatment of vertebral compression fractures in routine clinical practice in the United States. MATERIALS AND METHODS This retrospective cohort study...

BACKGROUND Proctological surgery is being carried out increasingly on an outpatient basis. The reasons for this are safe anesthetic procedures, short operation times and low complication rates. This study is a retrospective analysis of complication rates, symptom recurrence and long-term results according to outpatient proctologic surgery practiced in our hospital in the last 10 years. MATERI...

Study Design Retrospective population-based observational study. Objective To assess the growth of cervical spine surgery performed in an outpatient setting. Methods A retrospective study was conducted using the United States Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project's State Inpatient and Ambulatory Surgery Databases for California, New York, Florida, and Maryland from 2005 to 2009. Current Proce...

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has posed an unprecedented threat to global healthcare delivery. Moewardi Hospital was appointed by the government of Indonesia be a one regional hospital June 2020. Other than cases, also provides care for other diseases which oncology patients. aim study: assess impact social restriction on services in this hospital. Materials and Methods: This study compares...

With advancements in minimally invasive surgical technique, pain management and rehabilitation proto- cols, prevention of post-operative complications, outpatient total hip arthroplasty became a realistic goal. This study reports our experience performing assessing its feasi- bility safety. Between December 2015 January 2018, 52 arthroplasties were performed. We implemented peri-operative col t...

In the book ”Contemporary Endoscopic Spine Surgery”, edited by Kai-Uwe Lewandrowski, Jorge Felipe Ramírez León, and Anthony Yeung, information on history of spinal endoscopy is provided. A number aspects surgery are covered, in particular pain, preoperative examination, indications for endoscopic surgery, anesthesia, outpatient surgery. New technologies described. Leading scientists presented c...