Baskerville Paul
King's College Hospital, London.
J Perioper Pract. 2006 Jul;16(7):327-8, 330, 332. doi: 10.1177/175045890601600702.
The premise that underlines this article (based on a presentation delivered at AfPP's Annual Congress in October 2006) is that all elective surgery performed in this country should be day surgery. This should eventually include patients undergoing hip replacements, radical prostatectomies, aortic aneurysm repair and hepatectomies, to name a few. All of these procedures we should perform, safely and well, under the British definition of day surgery as 'going home at the end of the day'.
本文的前提（基于2006年10月在英国围手术期实践协会年会上的一次演讲）是，在这个国家进行的所有择期手术都应是日间手术。最终，这应该包括接受髋关节置换术、根治性前列腺切除术、主动脉瘤修复术和肝切除术等手术的患者，仅举几例。按照英国对日间手术的定义“在当天结束时回家”，我们应该安全且出色地完成所有这些手术。
