%0 Journal Article
%T Feasibility of ureteroscopy as a pure day
%A MA Khan
%A OP Phillips
%A PT Grice
%J Journal of Clinical Urology
%@ 2051-4166
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/2051415818814023
%X Ureteroscopy (URS) is a procedure that is commonly performed by endourologists for stone surgery and other diagnostic and therapeutic indications. With stone disease becoming an increasing burden on the health economy, there is a clear incentive to perform URS as a day-case procedure. This single-centre, single-surgeon study prospectively considered all patients for day-case rigid or flexible URS over a 12-month period, with the only exclusion criteria being an American Society of Anesthesiologists score greater than 3 or a lack of aftercare. Sixty-six patients were included with 61 being discharged the same day of surgery, meaning a pure day-case rate of 92% and 30-day postoperative readmission rate of 6%. This study suggests that URS should primarily be considered a day-case procedure whenever feasible. 2
%K Education
%K endourology
%K day-case
%K training
%K ureteroscopy
%K urolithiasis
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2051415818814023