Background: COVID-19 has overwhelmed many health care systems which has affected the landscape of elective surgery. A pandemic driven protocol was developed to perform foregut surgeries as a Same Day Surgery (SDS) discharge for all comers to reduce resource utilization.
Methods: Retrospective review of all patients who underwent elective laparoscopic foregut surgery (hiatal hernia, paraesophageal hernia, heller myotomy, and fundoplication) from 8/1/2020-1/31/2022 by a single surgeon after the implementation of a SDS protocol. Patients were compared to a pre-pandemic cohort, from 8/1/2019-4/30/2020, when overnight admission was standard practice.
Results: There were 36 pre-pandemic patients, and 41 pandemic patients successfully discharged the same day of surgery. We failed to detect a statistically significant difference between the two groups regarding 30-day ED visit rate (p-value of 0.4557) and 30-day readmission rate (p-value of 0.6790).
Conclusion: The creation of a SDS protocol for foregut surgery is a safe way to deliver much needed care to the community while decreasing resource utilization.
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