Ambulatory surgery ward is a fast and effective way of treating, nursing and patients’ education. We report the practice of ambulatory surgery ward in West China Hospital of Sichuan University about patients’ reception, treatment and nursing, medical safety, health education and post-operative follow-up. Results show that ambulatory surgery ward would guarantee patients’ safety, shorten hospitalization days and decrease medical cost, with more than 98% of patients’ satisfaction.
The Day Surgery Center of West China Tianfu Hospital of Sichuan University began operation in 2022, with a focus on same-day surgery. To ensure the quality of medical care for patients undergoing same-day surgery, the Day Surgery Center of West China Tianfu Hospital of Sichuan University utilizes information technology support and adopts an innovative patient health education model. This article mainly introduces the whole process management of health education for patients undergoing same-day surgery mentioned above, which involves many links before admission, during hospitalization, and after discharge. The aim is to provide reference for further optimization of same-day surgery and improve the quality and effectiveness of health education for patients undergoing same-day surgery.
At present, the mode of day surgery has been widely carried out in China. With the rapid turnover of patients, higher requirements have been put forward for the management of nosocomial infection. Therefore, it needs norms for the management of nosocomial infection in the day surgery ward. After 10 years of precipitation, under the guidance of the hospital infection management department, the hospital infection management system for the day surgery ward of West China Hospital of Sichuan University has been continuously researched and explored, so as to ensure the rapid turnover of patients and make the hospital infection management meet the national standards. The system includes patient management and control, environmental management and control, matters needing attention of medical staff, surgical site infection data collection, and indicators of hospital infection supervision, etc.
Objective To analyze the causes of unplanned overnight recovery of patients after same-day surgery and put forward countermeasures. Methods The data of same-day surgery patients in the Day Surgery Center of West China Tianfu Hospital of Sichuan University between February 2022 and May 2023 were selected. Patients who recovered overnight were defined as the unplanned overnight recovery group, and patients discharged on the same day after surgery were defined as the normal same-day group. The factors of unplanned overnight recovery after same-day surgery were analyzed. Results A total of 4 259 patients were enrolled, of whom 107 patients had unplanned overnight recovery, 4 152 patients were discharged on the same day after surgery, unplanned overnight recovery group accounted for 2.51% (107/4 259). Except for gender and age (P>0.05), there were significant differences between the two groups in the following six aspects: late starting time of surgery, longer distance from home, medical insurance settlement restrictions, pain, postoperative complications, and patient’s own factors (P<0.05). The results of logistic regression analysis showed that the late starting time of surgery [odds ratio (OR)=9.386, 95% confidence interval (CI) (2.993, 29.432), P<0.001], long distance from address [OR=4.828, 95%CI (2.015, 11.568), P<0.001], medical insurance settlement restrictions [OR=10.667, 95%CI (3.712, 30.658), P<0.001], pain [OR=30.514, 95%CI (7.688, 121.115), P<0.001], postoperative complications [OR=9.642, 95%CI (2.425, 38.342), P=0.001], and patient’s own factors [OR=16.087, 95%CI (10.358, 24.985), P<0.001] were risk factors for unplanned overnight recovery in same-day surgery patients. Conclusions The unplanned overnight recovery of same-day surgery patients in West China Tianfu Hospital of Sichuan University is related to six factors: late starting time of surgery, long distance from home, medical insurance settlement restrictions, pain, postoperative complications, and patient’s own factors. Medical staff can take corresponding measures to reduce the unplanned overnight recovery rate of same-day surgery by strict access standards, optimizing surgical scheduling, formulating individualized enhanced recovery after surgery programs, improving support for patient after discharge, and strengthening perioperative health education.
ObjectiveTo observe the effect of transabdominal preperitoneal (TAPP) laparoscopic hernia repair by same-day surgery mode for patients with inguinal hernia. MethodsThe 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. All patients in this study were admitted according to the same-day surgery plan, and those who were admitted to the hospital on the same day, operated on the same day, and returned to their homes on the same day, i.e., those who did not stay in the hospital overnight (the same-day surgery plan of the West China Tianfu Hospital of Sichuan University is now basically in the range of 8∶00–20∶00, and the latest discharge is at 21∶00) were classified as the same-day surgery group; however, the patients whose special cases needed to be postponed due to the condition of their illnesses, or those who were discharged from the hospital after 21∶00 due to safety considerations because of other reasons such as postoperative observation of patients with general anesthesia for a period of less than 2–4 h, or those who had a strong desire to be admitted to the hospital overnight, and whose hospital stay was not more than 24 h, were classified as the non-same-day surgery group. The age, gender, marital status, body mass index, hernia type, surgical site, home address, intraoperative bleeding, operative time, total hospitalization cost, pain score at discharge, unplanned revisit rate within 30 d after surgery, discharge satisfaction were compared between the patients of two groups. ResultsA 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 the patients in the non-same-day surgery group had a higher pain score at discharge and a higher proportion of home address outside Chengdu city as compared with the same-day surgery group (P=0.042, P<0.001, respectively); 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]. ConclusionFrom the analysis results of this study, TAPP laparoscopic hernia repair for patients with inguinal hernia by the same-day surgery mode is safe, and it can further shorten the hospitalization time as compared with the non-same-day surgery.
Day surgery has become an international and domestic medical service model, and it has received more and more attention from hospital administrators in terms of innovation and practical benefits for hospital management. However, from the perspective of standardization management, management norms have still been wanted. This paper introduces the general specification of clinical pathway management for day surgery in West China Hospital of Sichuan University, in order to provide reference for subsequent research, and hopes to provide certain standard models to provide reference for clinical pathway management practice.