OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the safety of day surgery for inguinal @entity547 . DESIGN: A randomised prospective study of @entity1 presenting for elective @entity169 . SETTING: Jos University Teaching, Jos, Nigeria. SUBJECTS: One hundred and twenty one @entity1 who completed a six-week follow up period. INTERVENTIONS: Sixty one @entity1 had elective @entity547 repair as daycares while 60 @entity1 were treated as inpatients. Forty six herniotomies and seventy five herniorrhaphies were performed under local or general anaesthesia. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Early post-operative complications, including wound complications were evaluated. RESULTS: Early post-operative complications occurred in two of the 61 daycares and 15 of 60 inpatients (p=0.002). There were twelve and ten wound complications in daycares and inpatients respectively (p=0.668). There was no mortality. CONCLUSION: Outpatient elective @entity169 in carefully selected @entity1 is relatively safe in our environment.

Safety of daycare XXXX repair in Jos, Nigeria.

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['patients'] @entity169 :: ('MESH:D006552', 'Disease') :: ['inguinal hernia repair'] @entity547 :: ('MESH:D006547', 'Disease') :: ['hernia']
@entity547 :: (MESH:D006547,Disease) :: ['hernia']
