• Zentralbl Chir · Dec 2009

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    [Fast-track paediatric surgery].

    • M Reismann and B Ure.
    • Klinik für Kinderchirurgie, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Deutschland. reismann.marc@mh-hannover.de
    • Zentralbl Chir. 2009 Dec 1; 134 (6): 514-6.

    AbstractFast-track surgery is a comprehensive perioperative treatment concept that has been successfully performed and widely accepted in adult surgery since the 1990s. The crucial aim is to speed up convalescence and to avoid perioperative complications as pneumonia and thrombosis. Compared to conventional treatment strategies, hospital stays are substantially reduced. In the paediatric field fast-track surgery is not generally established. However, in recent studies a high efficiency of paediatric surgical fast-track procedures with respect to medical, psychological, economical and ethical parameters has been shown. It has been confirmed that early convalescence leads to an increase of satisfaction of the patients and their parents without higher complication rates. Shorter hospital stays lead to reduced expenses for the health insurances and parents. Fast-track concepts are not implemented in the German reimbursement system G-DRG. Thus, problems with intensified nursing and reimbursement remain to be solved.Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart-New York.

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