Ambulatory surgery in thyroid-nodular conditions

Authors

  • Sergio Hernández Iglesias Especialista de I Grado en Cirugía General y Profesor Auxiliar de la FCM de Pinar del Río. Hospital Universitario "Abel Santamaría Cuadrado". Pinar del Río.
  • Juan Carlos Delgado Especialista de I Grado en Cirugía General. Hospital Universitario "Abel Santamaría Cuadrado". Pinar del Río.
  • Osmín Fajardo Horta Especialista de I Grado en Cirugía General. Hospital Universitario "Abel Santamaría Cuadrado". Pinar del Río.
  • Luís Ramón Acosta González Residente de 4to Año en Cirugía General. Hospital Universitario "Abel Santamaría Cuadrado". Pinar del Río.

Abstract

A comparative, cross-sectional and prospective study was carried out in 104 patients affected by surgical thyroid pathologies from January 2001 to December 2002. 50 patients underwent surgery through non ambulatory major surgery method and other 54 patients through ambulatory major surgery at Abel Santamaría Cuadrado Hospital in Pinar del Rio. In the sample nodose pathologies prevailed as for diffuses. Since the latter were excluded from our work, assisted totally with general anesthesia and endotraqueal intubations. Associated diseases constitute limitations in the chosen sample, as long as hospital stay in patients with nodose benign pathologies was lower than 24 hours post-operatively, whose progress was satisfactory. The study showed that surgeries of thyroid nodes with ambulatory surgery are safe and feasible for the patients because of low amounts of complications, which significantly reduces hospitalary cost, since most patients were discharged 12 and 24 hours later. Evident economical advantages were known as to saving bed resource and hospitalary cost, as well as a high degree of satisfaction by those patients undergoing surgery, which justifies the fact of recommending the increase of the application of this procedure and the spread of it to as many surgical diseases as possible.

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Hernández Iglesias S, Delgado JC, Fajardo Horta O, Acosta González LR. Ambulatory surgery in thyroid-nodular conditions. Rev Ciencias Médicas [Internet]. 2012 Oct. 5 [cited 2025 Aug. 29];8(2):6-13. Available from: https://revcmpinar.sld.cu/index.php/publicaciones/article/view/193

Issue

Vol. 8 No. 2 (2004)

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ORIGINAL ARTICLES

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