DAY SURGERY

Day surgery (also called ambulatory or outpatient surgery), the practice of performing surgery without an overnight hospital stay, is not new- indeed it can trace its origins back to the early 1900s- but it only really became popular from about the 1980s. North America, the United Kingdom and Northe...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: I. Smith C. Hammond
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2007-07-01
Series:Acta Medica Iranica
Online Access:http://journals.tums.ac.ir/PdfMed.aspx?pdf_med=/upload_files/pdf/4031.pdf&manuscript_id=4031