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Melt Your Job Stress Away - January 2014 - Outpatient Surgery Magazine

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Page 72 O U T P A T I E N T E V O L U T I O N HOME SWEET HOME Sending healthy surgical patients home prevents them from spending time in the hospital, which should be reserved for sick kids who truly need round-the-clock care. Outpatient Adenotonsillectomy Is Possible It's time to reconsider guidelines calling for automatic overnight stays. Jacqueline E. Jones, MD | New York, N.Y. Most of my pediatric adenotonsillectomy patients are complication-free following surgery and head home without issue. So can a procedure performed approximately 250,000 times each year in the United States be done safely in the outpatient setting? Yes, I've proven that. But it has to be done in the right types of facilities on the right types of patients, who are cared for by properly trained perioperative teams. The decision to discharge patients is based on a host of clinical and environmental factors unique to individual patients, but sending patients home on the day of surgery is

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