PEDIATRICS Vol. 60 No. 4 October 1977, pp. 600-602
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Outpatient Pediatric Surgery in a Developing Country

Mohamed El-Shafie M.D.1 and Robert P. Shapiro M.D.1

1 Department of Surgery, Pediatric Surgery Division, Medical College of Ohio, Toledo

A total of 5,522 outpatient surgical procedures were performed at the Children's Hospital in Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies, between 1968 and 1973. This included 2,662 general surgical procedures. There were no deaths or major complications. Parents participated actively in the preoperative and postoperative care.

Outpatient surgery can be a safe, inexpensive, and effective means of health care delivery. It is of special value in developing countries with limited facilities for inpatient care.

Submitted on March 8, 1976
Accepted on July 14, 1976