Day Surgery for Children

Abstract

During the last one year between April 1985 and March 1986, a total of 805 patients have undergone surgical procedures for a variety of lesions on the day care. Of these 805 patients, general anesthesia was employed in 777 and local analgesia in 28. The patients age ranged between 1 and 6 years in 513 patients (66%). Two patients out of 805 reguired over night hospitalization for observation of possible vesical injury during hernia repaire (1) and pneu-mothorax after removal of the intrasternal nail (1). A survey was carried out by mailing a questionaire to 200 random patients for postopera-tive course. In 148 responding patients, 50 patients (38%) had some degree of pain and 16 (11%) temperature elevation. Otherwise, there was no major complication. This study con-cludes that surgical therapy on day care basis in pediatric group of patients could be safely carried out.