According to the International Association for Ambulatory Surgery (IAAS), ambulatory surgery should be defined as: 'an operation/procedure, excluding an office or outpatient operation/procedure, where the patient is discharged on the same working day'.
The origins of ambulatory surgery can be traced back to the pioneering work of James Nicholl at the Glasgow Royal Hospital who reported 8988 paediatric day case procedures between 1899-1908. Despite initial scepticism from the surgical profession, there has been a rapid expansion in the complexity and amount of ambulatory surgery in recent years: between 1989-2003 the percentage of elective surgery undertaken as day case in the UK increased from 15% to 70%. Many health services have set targets for the percentage of elective surgeries to be done as day-case procedures and in the UK this target is set at 75%"
Table of Contents- 1. Principles of an Ambulatory Surgery Service
- 2. Introduction and epidemiology of Pelvic Floor Dysfunction
- 3. Ambulatory Evaluation of Pelvic Organ Prolapse and Urinary Incontinence
- 4. Role of Cystoscopy
- 5. Role of Nurse Practioners in Ambulatory care
- 6. Non-Surgical management of Pelvic floor disorders
- 7. Ambulatory Surgical procedures in Stress Urinary Incontinence
- 8. Pelvic Organ Prolapse Surgery as Ambulatory Procedure
- 9. Common Urethral & Vaginal Lesions in Ambulatory Urogynaecology
- 10. Ambulatory management of Childbirth Pelvic floor Trauma
- 11. Teaching and training in Urogynaecology
- 12. Ambulatory Penile and Inguino-Scrotal Surgery
- 13. Ambulatory Management of Renal Stone Disease
- 14. The Management of Recurrent Urinary Tract Infections
- 15. An Ambulatory Approach to Benign Prostatic Obstruction
- 16. Urethral Catheters and Ambulatory Management of Urinary Retention
- 17. Paediatric Urology
- 18. Urothelial Bladder Cancer
- 19. Prostate Cancer
- 20. Renal Cancer
- 21. Penile Cancer
- 22. Testis Cancer
- 23. Plain X-Ray, Computed Tomography and Nuclear Medicine Scanning in Urology
- 24. Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Urology
