Thursday 22 November 2012

All About Ambulatory Surgery


Ambulatory Surgery is also known as outpatient care surgery or same day surgery. As the name suggest in Ambulatory Surgery the patient can get to their home the same day after the surgery. Such surgeries save cost to a great extent.

Ambulatory Surgery offers the following services:
•    Surgical procedures
•    Pain management
•    Diagnostic services

Some of the benefits of same-day surgery are:

•    Inpatient hospital admission can be avoided resulting in cost savings
•    Minimizes prescription medication and therefore, harmful side effects
•    Makes better use of the doctor’s valuable time
•    State-of-the-art surgical instruments and supplies
•    Surgical techniques are less invasive
•    There is a team caring for the patient undergoing surgery with a surgeon and anesthesiologist being present on hand
•    Reduced health care costs

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