Effectiveness of day-case surgery in urology: single surgeon experience

ABSTRACT

To evaluate the feasibility and cost effectiveness of day-case and short stay surgery in urology. Retrospective. Urology Unit, Ibn Al Nafees hospital. A retrospective study of 300 patients operated upon at Ibn Al Nafees Hospital as day-case and short stay surgery between January 2003 and December 2005. The majority of these patients had intermediate or minor procedures, but few had major procedures. Two hundred andrological procedures, for impotence 96, infertility 76 and 28 vasectomy reversal were done as day surgery together with all the minor urological procedures; most of these patients went home few hours after surgery. Twenty major [47%] procedures needed to stay a little longer especially in open kidney surgery. Day-case and short stay surgery in urology is feasible, and cost effective especially in private setting. In this study, most patients left the hospital few hours after the surgery