Current opinion in anaesthesiology
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Curr Opin Anaesthesiol · Jun 2022
ReviewMedical disease and ambulatory surgery, new insights in patient selection based on medical disease.
Improvements in perioperative care contributed to enlarge the eligibility criteria for day case surgery and more and more patients with comorbidities may be concerned. However, underlying medical diseases may influence postoperative outcomes, and therefore, must be considered when selecting patients to undergo ambulatory surgery. ⋯ The underlying medical diseases should not be considered as sole criteria but they should rather be regarded as a dynamic process, which includes the surgical procedure as well as the experience and expertise of the perioperative setting.