This high achievement of day-case treatment, even in patients with ASA grade III, is explained by a new anaesthetic regimen together with good surgical technique and close follow-up.
In a placebo-controlled study, the use of corticosteroid prophylaxis (betamethasone) produced a significant reduction in both postoperative pain and nausea in outpatients who received the corticosteroid injection before ambulatory foot or hemorrhoid operations.
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