Objective To explore the management experience of day surgery in children specialized hospitals.Methods Wuhan Children’s Hospital began one-day pediatric surgery in 1981. In 2001, one-day surgery center was formally established to centralize treatment and management. In the past three years, the mixed management of centralized and decentralized treatment was increased. At the same time, the one-day surgery management process was optimized, the relevant access and evaluation system was strictly implemented, to ensure the medical quality and medical safety.Results Since 2001, more than 120 000 cases of day surgery had been performed in the hospital, without death or other serious complications. The incidence of common postoperative complications was less than 0.8%, and the time of occurrence of complications was mainly within 12 hours after surgery. By 2018, the number of day surgeries in the hospital accounted for 29.57% of the annual elective surgeries, and the overall incidence of complications was lower than the traditional hospitalization mode of the same disease.Conclusions The concept of patient-centered service is truly embodied in day surgery. Specialized hospitals, especially children’s hospitals, have a large number of single diseases, a large demand for patients’ surgeries, a high degree of homogeneity of surgeries, good surgical results, and urgent needs and advantages to carry out day surgery. Day surgery is suitable to start in developed departments, and be promoted in other specialties of the hospital when experience has been accumulated, so as to increase the proportion of day surgery in elective surgery gradually.

Citation： BIAN Hongqiang, MA Jingwei, YANG Yongru. Management experience of day surgery in children’s hospital. West China Medical Journal, 2019, 34(2): 193-197. doi: 10.7507/1002-0179.201901077 Copy

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