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

Abstract EN

Objective: To evaluate the feasibility and cost effectiveness of day-case and short stay surgery in urology.

Design: Retrospective.

Setting: Urology Unit, Ibn Al Nafees hospital.

Method: 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.

Result: Two hundred andrological procedures, for impotence 96, infertility 76 and 28 vasectomy 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.

Conclusion: 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.