Feasibility of laparoscopic Nissen fundoplication as a day-case procedure

Abstract

LNF in day-care is feasible and safe, but postoperative pain scores are high and most prefer short hospital stay.

Ambulatory laparoscopic fundoplication for gastroesophageal reflux disease: a systematic review

“…There were no randomized trials or meta-analyses included in the study. The studies identified were one prospective comparative study (comparing 22 outpatient surgeries to 16 inpatient surgeries, level 3b) [8], nine prospective noncomparative studies (level 4) [5,[9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16], and four retrospective noncomparative studies (level 4) [17][18][19][20] of which one involved children [20] and was analyzed separately. A literature review without data metaanalysis was published in 2005 and involved only seven published studies [21].…”

“…All study results are presented in Table 1. Ten publications dealing with day-case surgery (hospital stay \12 h, mainly coming from Europe) were identified (8 prospective [9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16], 2 retrospective [17,18]), each of them enrolling between 20 and 310 adult patients for a total of 876 adult patients. Three publications dealing with outpatient surgery (hospital stay \24 h, mainly coming from the US) were identified (2 prospective [5,8], 1 retrospective [19]), each of them enrolling between 4 and 557 adult patients for a total of 583 adult patients.…”

Long-term outcomes of laparoscopic cholecystectomy: a prospective piecewise linear regression analysis

“…Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is an important indicator of the principal outcome for laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) [1,2]. Studies indicate that LC surgery substantially improves HRQoL [3,4].…”

“…Despite their contributions, previous studies of the longterm outcomes for LC have had significant shortcomings [1][2][3][7][8][9]. First, few used longitudinal data with more than two time points.…”

“…The objectives of this study were threefold: (1) to examine longitudinal changes in each HRQoL dimension over time in patients who had undergone cholecystectomy, (2) to predict the time of improvement of each HRQoL dimension in LC patients by using piecewise linear regression analysis, and (3) to explore the long-term relationship between effective predictors and each HRQoL dimension in LC patients over time.…”