Day-care surgery is gaining in popularity throughout the surgical specialities due to economical constraints and patient convenience. However this is not without risk and a careful procedure by procedure evaluation should be performed to prove the suitability of this type of surgery for day surgery. The authors studied 424 patients admitted for septoplasty and / or septorhinoplasty and reviewed various pre- and postoperative variables to evaluate the risk / benefit ratio for daycare aesthetic nasal surgery. Between 17 and 40% of patients were eligible for day surgery especially those living <1 hour from the point of care. Given proper selection criteria, it is possible to offer patients undergoing aesthetic nasal surgery the option of a day care hospitalisation with all its benefits and without any additional risks.
Day care or admission for aesthetic nasal surgery?
Reviewed by Badr E. Mostafa
Feasibility study of septoplasties and septorhinoplasties in
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Badr Eldin Mostafa
Ain-Shams Faculty of Medicine, Almaza , Heliopolis, Egypt.
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