Pushing the Envelope: Laparoscopic Nephrectomy as Outpatient Surgery

TY - JOUR

T1 - Pushing the Envelope

T2 - Laparoscopic Nephrectomy as Outpatient Surgery

AU - Azawi, Nessn H.

AU - Christensen, Tom

AU - Dahl, Claus

AU - Lund, Lars

PY - 2018

Y1 - 2018

N2 - Purpose of Review: The purposes of this review were to identify the possible limiting factors prohibiting laparoscopic nephrectomy being performed as an outpatient surgery and optimize these limiting factors. Recent Findings: Laparoscopic nephrectomy for patients who have kidney cancer can be performed as an outpatient surgery in well-selected, well-educated, and well-informed patients in a well-prepared hospital culture. Summary: Patient confidence, pain, and hospital culture are the most important limiting factors to the performance of laparoscopic nephrectomy as an outpatient procedure. Controlling these factors leads to a high success rate for the outpatient procedure.

AB - Purpose of Review: The purposes of this review were to identify the possible limiting factors prohibiting laparoscopic nephrectomy being performed as an outpatient surgery and optimize these limiting factors. Recent Findings: Laparoscopic nephrectomy for patients who have kidney cancer can be performed as an outpatient surgery in well-selected, well-educated, and well-informed patients in a well-prepared hospital culture. Summary: Patient confidence, pain, and hospital culture are the most important limiting factors to the performance of laparoscopic nephrectomy as an outpatient procedure. Controlling these factors leads to a high success rate for the outpatient procedure.

KW - Fast-track

KW - Kidney cancer

KW - Laparoscopic nephrectomy

KW - Outpatient surgery

U2 - 10.1007/s11934-018-0751-x

DO - 10.1007/s11934-018-0751-x

M3 - Review

C2 - 29374808

AN - SCOPUS:85041078987

SN - 1527-2737

VL - 19

JO - Current Urology Reports

JF - Current Urology Reports

M1 - 2

ER -