• 1. Day Surgery Center, West China Tianfu Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610213, P. R. China;
  • 2. Day Surgery Center, General Practice Medical Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610044, P. R. China;
  • 3. Department of Gastrointestinal Hernia, West China Tianfu Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610213, P. R. China;
SONG Yinghan, Email: yinghan2222@163.com
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Objective To observe the effect of transabdominal preperitoneal (TAPP) laparoscopic hernia repair by same-day surgery mode for patients with inguinal hernia. Methods The patients who underwent TAPP laparoscopic hernia repair were retrospectively collected in the Day Surgery Center of West China Tianfu Hospital from July 2022 to June 2023. The included patients were assigned into a same-day surgery group and non-same-day surgery group based on the hospital stay after surgery. The patients with hospital stay of less than 12 h after surgery were classified as the same-day surgery group, while those with hospital stay of more than 12 h but less than 24 h were classified as the non-same-day surgery group. The intraoperative bleeding, operative time, total hospitalization cost, pain score at discharge, unplanned revisit rate within 30 d after surgery, discharge satisfaction, and outside Chengdu city of home address were compared between two groups of patients. Results A total of 167 patients underwent TAPP laparoscopic hernia repair were enrolled in this study, including 97 in the same-day surgery group and 70 in the non-same-day surgery group. There were no statistically significant differences in the age, gender, marital status, body mass index, hernia type, surgical site, intraoperative bleeding, operative time, and total hospitalization cost between the two groups (P>0.05). However, it was found that patients in the non-same-day surgery group had a higher pain score at discharge than those in the same-day surgery group (P<0.05), the home address of the non-same-day surgery group is far away from the same-day surgery group (P <0.001); The satisfaction rate of all patients in this group was 100% on the 28th day after discharge, and the unplanned revisit rate within 30 d after surgery was 3.6% (6/167), although which in the same-day surgery group was slightly higher than the non-same-day surgery group, the difference was not statistically significant by Fisher test [4.1% (4/97) versus 2.9% (2/70), P=0.226]. Conclusions From the analysis results of this study, TAPP laparoscopic hernia repair for patients with inguinal hernia by the daily same-day surgery mode is safe, and it can further shorten the patient hospitalization time as compared with the non-same-day surgery.