Background In the last ten years Day Surgery has significantly evolved, due to improvements in surgery and anaesthesia, and the need of reducing long term admission costs [1]. However, is Day Surgery suitable for elderly patients? The aim of this paper is to assess the risk of over 70 year-old outpatients who underwent inguinal hernia repair, and suggest an adequate preoperative pathway.
Retrospective assessment of inguinal hernia repair in elderly outpatients / Palumbo, Piergaspare; Minicucci, Alessia; Mariotta, Giovanni; Girolami, Marco; Angelici, Alberto Maria. - In: BMC GERIATRICS. - ISSN 1471-2318. - 10:Suppl 1(2010), pp. A21-A21. [10.1186/1471-2318-10-s1-a21]
Retrospective assessment of inguinal hernia repair in elderly outpatients
PALUMBO, Piergaspare;MINICUCCI, ALESSIA;MARIOTTA, Giovanni;GIROLAMI, Marco;ANGELICI, Alberto Maria
2010
Abstract
Background In the last ten years Day Surgery has significantly evolved, due to improvements in surgery and anaesthesia, and the need of reducing long term admission costs [1]. However, is Day Surgery suitable for elderly patients? The aim of this paper is to assess the risk of over 70 year-old outpatients who underwent inguinal hernia repair, and suggest an adequate preoperative pathway.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
