Pediatric Day Case Surgical Practice at a Tertiary Hospital in Lagos: How Have We Faired?
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Date
2014-07
Authors
Elebute, OA
Ademuyiwa, AO
Bode, CO
Idiodi-Thomas, HOI
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Annals of Medical and Health Sciences Research
Abstract
Background: There has been a gradual increase in the number of patients treated as a day case
surgery in our centre. This study has been conducted to audit pediatric day-case surgery practice
at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital. Aims: The aim of the following study is to determine
the morbidity and mortality from day case surgery in our centre. Subjects and Methods: The
type of study was a prospective study over a 2½ year period at the Lagos University Teaching
Hospital. The patients scheduled for surgeries were assessed in the pediatric outpatient clinic
and information obtained for each of the patients included age, sex, diagnosis and operation
planned. Additional information collected included the (1) type of anesthesia (2) post‑operative
complications and the cadre of the surgeon. The data was analyzed using SPSS version 19 (IBM
Corp. Released 2010. IBM SPSS Statistics for Windows, Version 19.0. Armonk, NY: IBM
Corp, USA). Result: A total of 381 patients were operated on during the study period. The age
range of patients was 2 weeks to 15 years and the mean age was 2.9 years (3.0). There were
338 male patients (88.7%;338/381) and 43 females (11.3%;43/381). Inguinal hernias and
hydroceles constituted almost half of the cases treated while 16.0% of cases were undescended
testis. There were four morbidities and no mortality. Conclusion: Day case surgery is associated
with low morbidity and no mortality in our centre.
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Keywords
Day case surgery , Morbidity , Mortality , Patients , Research Subject Categories::MEDICINE::Surgery
Citation
Elebute OA, Ademuyiwa AO, Bode CO, Idiodi-Thomas H. Pediatric day case surgical practice at a Tertiary Hospital in Lagos: How have we faired?. Ann Med Health Sci Res 2014;4:559-61