RESUMO
Se realizó un estudio prospectivo en el Servicio de Cirugía Mayor Ambulatoria y de Corta Hospitalización del Hospital Clinicoquirúrgico Docente "Miguel Enríquez", para conocer el número de intervenciones realizadas por este método, afecciones más frecuentes, tipos de anestesia y complicaciones; para ello se revisaron las historias clínicas de 3 254 pacientes intervenidos de enero de 1991 a diciembre de 1995; se agruparon por niveles, y se pudo observar que predominaron las hernias inguinales en el nivel II y la litiasis vesicular en el nivel III; se presentaron tan sólo 69 complicaciones.
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.