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More and more surgery is being performed as an outpatient.
Outpatient surgery has the following benefits:
1. Recovery may be quicker as operations are typically
performed to minimize pain
2. Infection rates may be lower as surgery is not done in
a major hospital but rather a surgery center
3. The staff get experienced in managing particular kinds
of operations
4. It may work out cheaper
The types of operations performed as an outpatient
include:
1.
Anterior
cervical fusion surgery
2.
Artificial
cervical disc surgery
3.
Posterior
cervical foraminotomies
4. Lumbar
microdiscetomies and
laminectomies
Typically surgery is performed in the morning and patients
go home the same day and go home 4-23 hours later. Attention is a little more
focused than in a major hospital with lower complications. The actual operating
room setup and equipment is the same as a big hospital but the staff/patient
ratios are better. Patients with good health are generally only selected for
this kind of surgery.
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