Complications
Conditions
Brief summary
Long surgical wait-times and limited hospital capacity are common obstacles to surgical care in many countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Ambulatory surgery might offer a solution to these problems. The aim is to study the introduction of ambulatory surgery in a pediatric hospital in SSA. This is a cross-sectional descriptive study which took place over 6 months. It includes all the patients assigned to ambulatory surgery in the Pediatric University Hospital in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
Interventions
PROCEDUREAnesthesia for ambulatory paediatric surgery
Sponsors
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Pédiatrique Charles de Gaulle
Study design
Allocation
NA
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
1 Years to 15 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* ASA 1 status * elective surgery with low potential for blood loss or severe pain, lasting less than 90 minutes * whose parents could be contacted by telephone and who could return to the hospital in less than 1 hour * Parents gave consent for the surgical procedure
Exclusion criteria
* non operative patients
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Failure of ambulatory surgery | 1day | number of patients that have been hospitalized (for whom ambulatory have been conversed to hospitalization) |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Morbidity | 3 days | Number of patients that presented complications of anesthesia or surgery such as nausea, vomiting, drowsiness and fever. |
| Complication after discharge from hospital | 3 days | number of phone calls from parents of patients after ambulatory discharge |
Outcome results
None listed