Re: Adverse events and readmissions after day-case urological surgery

Abstract

This valuable retrospective study looks at the complication rate and frequency of re-admission following day case (ambulatory urological surgery), under both local and general anaesthesia. The authors have reviewed all day case surgery over a 16 month period at a single institution accumulating data on 1189 patients from a possible 1420. The importance of this paper is two fold. Firstly, it highlights the ever increasing trend toward day case surgery throughout the world with an inevitable parallel rise in the degree of surgical complexity that can be accomplished in such a setting. Not too long ago, day case ureteroscopy with stent placement was unheard of, now it is common place with excellent results and acceptable rates of complication and re-admission.