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Objectives: Make a description about the ambulatory spine surgery programo
Methodology: Descriptive, retrospective, linear study with all patients of the ambulatory spíne surgery program in the neurosurgery department of the CHMDAAM CSS. The test for statistical significance was chi square (x') and p. It was use Epilnfo version 3.2.2
Results: One hundred patients. The 52 % males, 30 % between 51-60 years old, 77 % no previous pathologies. The most frequent diagnosis was lumbar slipped disk L4/L5 with 43 % and the most frequent surgery was hemilaminectomy + lumbar microdiskectomy with 59 %. The surgeries take less than 2 hours in 24 %, with 3 % of durotomies and 2 % of others complications. The dipirona was the only analgesic used in 42 % of the cases. AII patients left the hospital the day of their surgery. There wasn't statstícal difference in the complications according to the type of surgeries or age groups.
Conclusions: The results of the ambulatory spine surgery program were successfully with 100 % were going to the house the same day of surgery, with few complications, without variants in the kind of surgery, previous pathologies or age group.
