Flavio Antonio de Sá Ribeiro and Ivan Mathias
Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Title: Ambulatory surgery in elderly patients
Biography
Biography: Flavio Antonio de Sá Ribeiro and Ivan Mathias
Abstract
An increasing number of elderly patients are undergoing ambulatory surgery. We studied 4,184 patients with age above 60 years, outpatient’s surgical procedures in ambulatory surgical center from UERJ (Policlinica Piquet Carneiro), in Rio de Janeiro, in the last fi ve years (January 2010 to January 2015); in the studied group, the elderly patient was 90 years and the median was 72 years. No deaths in this group, neither hospital admittance nor major complication.