Day surgery is the planned admission of a surgical patient for an elective or semi-elective procedure where the patient is admitted, undergoes surgery and is discharged on the same calendar day.2 If the patient remains in a hospital bed overnight on the day of their surgery they are classed as having undergone inpatient surgery. The term ‘23-hour stay’...
The Guidelines for the Provision of Anaesthetic Services (GPAS) supports the development and delivery of high quality anaesthetic services. The ACSA scheme supports departments of anaesthesia to implement the recommendations contained within GPAS. This is achieved through a set of standards, derived from GPAS, against which a department is able to benchmark itself through self-assessment and peer review.
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