Abstract

DOMINGUEZ LANUZA, Juan Carlos; ZAMORA SANTANA, Orlando; RODRIGUEZ REYES, Juan Francisco  and  RODRIGUEZ SOTO, Mayda E. Cirugía general mayor ambulatoria y de corta hospitalización: Experiencia de 5 años de trabajo. Rev Cubana cir [online]. 1999, vol.38, n.1, pp. 52-56. ISSN 1561-2945.

A prospective study was conducted at the Service of Ambulatory Major Surgery and of Short Hospitalization of the "Miguel Enríquez" Clinical and Surgical Teaching Hospital to know the number of operations performed by this method, the most frequent affections, the types of anesthesis and complications. To this end, the medical histories of 3 254 patients who were operated on from January, 1991, to December, 1995, were reviewed, and grouped by levels. There was a predominance of inguinal hernias at level II and of vesicular lithiasis at level III. Only 69 complications were observed

Keywords : AMBULATORY SURGERY; LENGTH OF STAY.

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