The Future Of Day Case Surgery essay

The Future Of Day Case Surgery

The national average rate of day case surgery has increased by 9.35% in the last three years from 68.50%1 to 74.85%2. This not only benefits the NHS financially but there are also major benefits for the patient such as a reduced risk of infection and the convenience of recovering from surgery in their own home. This increase has been bought about by several factors, such as advancements in analgesics and the possibilities of patient education; which will be looked at in this review.

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This will lead onto an insight into current limitations of day case surgery and how these are being overcome allowing more elective surgery to be treated as day cases. This review will also identify where further research and development is needed in order to allow day case surgery to progress in the future. This will all be achieved by looking at previous advancements and how they came about in order to allow understanding of the future of day case surgery……………

Three online databases were used in order to find relevant papers that allow for an understanding of the future of day surgery. The databases used were Medline, Scopus and the British association of day surgery (BADS). The first two databases were accessed via the University of Liverpool’s library website whereas the latter was accessed directly from the BADS website.

When searching using the online databases an inclusion criterion was used in order to assure that the articles were relevant and recent. There was confidence of the quality of the articles due to the fact that there were found using these well respected databases. The inclusion criteria used specified that literature was not dated before January 2000 (10 years ago), that the literature is in English language and that the literature applies to humans.

It was also important that only primary data such as randomized controlled trials and case reports were looked at in order to fulfil the criteria of a structured review. When using Medline the keywords search only was used. The tool used………….