This study evaluated the expanding role of freestanding ambulatory surgery centers in pediatric fracture care based on the only national ambulatory surgery database within the United States. Released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 1996 and again in 2006, these reports were used to estimate the volume of outpatient pediatric operative fracture care in the United States over...

Objectives-This report presents national estimates of surgical and nonsurgical ambulatory procedures performed in hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) in the United States during 2010. Patient characteristics, including age, sex, expected payment source, duration of surgery, and discharge disposition are presented, as well as the number and types of procedures performed in these sett...

In the late 1950s, centers dedicated to major ambulatory surgery (MAS) were first established in Vancouver and later in Washington and California. The first totally independent center (‘‘Surgicenter’’) was inaugurated in February 1970 in Phoenix (Arizona), conceived by 2 anesthesiologists, Wallace Reed and John Ford, for ambulatory interventions without the participation of traditional hospital...

BACKGROUND There has been increased interest regarding patient safety and standards of care in Canadian ambulatory surgery facilities where surgical procedures are performed. The Canadian Association for Accreditation of Ambulatory Surgical Facilities (CAAASF) is a national organization formed to establish and maintain standards to ensure that surgical procedures conducted outside of public hos...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS Determine rates and reasons for revisits after adult uvulopalatopharyngoplasty (UPPP). STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional analysis of multistate ambulatory surgery and hospital databases. METHODS Ambulatory adult UPPP cases were extracted from the State Ambulatory Surgery Databases for New York, Florida, Iowa, and California for 2010. Cases were linked to the State Emergency...

INTRODUCTION Although more than 30 million patients in the United States undergo ambulatory surgery each year, it remains unclear what percentage of these patients receive a perioperative nerve block. We reviewed data from the 2006 National Survey of Ambulatory Surgery to determine the demographic, socioeconomic, geographic, and clinical factors associated with the likelihood of nerve block pla...

children undergoing general anesthesia for strabismus surgery have a higher incidence of postoperative vomiting than those receiving the same anaesthesia for other types of ambulatory surgical procedures. droperidol (0/0 75 mg/kg iv) and promethazine (0.05-1.0 mg/kg) were used in 100 children between 2-15 years old. promethazine which has sedative property, anticholinergic antihistaminic, antie...

BACKGROUND Laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) is the most commonly performed minimal invasive surgery. However, practice of its use as an ambulatory surgery in our hospital settings is uncommon. OBJECTIVE To evaluate safety and cost effectiveness of LC as an ambulatory day care surgery. STUDY DESIGN Quasiexperimental. SETTING Department of surgery, Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pa...

Ambulatory surgery provides quality care that is cost-effective. The use of innovative surgical and anesthetic techniques will allow larger numbers of patients to take advantage of the benefits of undergoing an elective operation on an ambulatory basis. Anesthesiologists will be faced with more complex surgery, which will require careful selection and assessment of patients to ensure continuity...