Day-surgery, one-day surgery: the experience of an ENT unit in a 250 bed hospital.

The increasing trend in day-surgery procedures, resulting from continuous improvement in medical practice as well as cultural and economic factors, has profoundly changed the management of patient hospitalisation. Improvement in organizational and professional skills of health staff is essential for this procedure which allows mean hospitalisation time to be reduced. A retrospective study on personal experience of day-surgery procedures from 1st January 2002 to 31st December 2004 is herewith presented.

[Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo: follow-up of 165 cases treated by Semont's liberating maneuver].

The purpose of the present work has been to evaluate the effectiveness of the Semont's liberatory maneuver in treating benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) stemming from lithiasis of the posterior semicircular canal. After taking an overview of the history, epidemiology and clinical manifestation of this pathology, the cases studied are presented: 165 cases of BPPV of the posterior semicircular canal diagnosed between September 1992 and December 1994 at the Audiology and E.N.