Open AccessPaediatric day-case surgery in a new paediatric surgical unit in Northwestern Nigeria
Author(s) -
Kache Stephen Akau,
Danjuma Sale,
Jonathan L Ajah,
Jerry Godfrey Makama
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
african journal of paediatric surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.163
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 0189-6725
pISSN - 0974-5998
DOI - 10.4103/ajps.ajps_50_17
Subject(s) - medicine , paediatric surgery , surgery , audit , general anaesthesia , general surgery , pediatrics , management , economics
Day-case surgery is defined as when the surgical day-case patient is admitted for investigation or operation on a planned non-resident basis and who nonetheless requires facilities for recovery. A significant number of our patients were treated as day cases. This study was conducted to audit paediatric day-case surgery practice at our centre, to determine the indications as well as morbidity and mortality from day-case surgeries.