Shortening hospital stay for thyroid surgery

Expert Review of Medical Devices

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 85-96

  Dionigi, Gianlorenzo ^a   Bacuzzi, Alessandro ^a   Rovera, Francesca ^a   Boni, Luigi ^a   Piantanida, Eliana ^a   Tanda, Maria Laura ^a   Castano, Patrizia ^a   Annoni, Matteo ^a   Bartalena, Luigi ^a   Dionigi, Renzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

1 day surgery; Ambulatory surgery; Complications; Day surgery; Discharge criteria; Hospital volume; Informed consent; Minimally invasive video assisted thyroidectomy; Outpatient surgery; Patient education; Patient satisfaction; Selection criteria; Semihospitalization; Thyroidectomy

Indexed keywords

ALFENTANIL; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CALCIUM; FENTANYL; HEMOSTATIC AGENT; INTRAVENOUS ANESTHETIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; PARACETAMOL; PARATHYROID HORMONE; PROPOFOL;

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; AMBULATORY SURGERY; BRONCHITIS; CALCIUM BLOOD LEVEL; CERVICAL PLEXUS; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CYSTITIS; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG EFFICACY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; ESOPHAGUS DISEASE; FAMILY COUNSELING; FEVER; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; GRAFT FAILURE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEMATOMA; HOME CARE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; HYPOCALCEMIA; HYPOPARATHYROIDISM; INCIDENCE; INFORMED CONSENT; INTRAVENOUS ANESTHESIA; LARYNGEAL MASK; LENGTH OF STAY; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NERVE BLOCK; OPERATION DURATION; PARATHYROID HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PATIENT SELECTION; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA AND VOMITING; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; QUALITY CONTROL; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE PALSY; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; REOPERATION; REVIEW; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SEROMA; SORE THROAT; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TETANY; THYROID CANCER; THYROID DISEASE; THYROID SURGERY; THYROIDECTOMY; TRACHEOMALACIA; WOUND DEHISCENCE; WOUND DRAINAGE; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT; WOUND INFECTION;

HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; THYROID GLAND;

EID: 38049101190     PISSN: 17434440     EISSN: 17452422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/17434440.5.1.85     Document Type: Review

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