Day Surgery: What is it?
The increasing need of improving medical care and the economy in medical services has led to the adoption of new technical and organizational models that can help achieving both objectives.
The Day Surgery (daytime hospitalization or one night hospitalization at most) descendant of the already well-established Day Hospital, represents the latest most innovative project in terms of surgical activity.
Indeed, Ambulatory Surgery and Day Surgery represent a real revolution in the hospital system, in the medical expertise, in the productivity of the medical-administrative system and in the quality of patients' care.
All surgical specialties can include part of their surgical procedures in the Day Surgery system; it goes from General Surgery to ophthalmology, to pediatrics, to plastic surgery, to orthopedics and so on. In General Surgery, proctologic, phlebologic, mammary pathologies and especially abdominal wall hernias, are among those surgical procedures that can be often treated in the Day Surgery Unit.
Last frontier in General Surgery and other specialties is the laparoscopic surgery: gall bladder stones, appendix, uterine fibroids, ovarian cysts and in general all the benign pathologies can take advantage from this mini-invasive surgical procedure that in some cases require 24 hours hospitalization. Also very interesting are the possibilities for arthroscopy in the orthopedics field or for the operative endoscopy in the urology field.