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Day Case Local Anaesthetic Thoracoscopy: Experience from 2 District General Hospitals in the United Kingdom.

Megan TurnerFelicity CraigheadJoseph Donald MacKenzieAvinash Aujayeb
Published in: Medical sciences (Basel, Switzerland) (2023)
Day case LAT with IPC insertion is feasible with this current set up, with a median stay of 0 days, and should be widely adopted. The health economics of preventing admission are considerable, as our previous analysis showed a median length of stay of 3.96 days, although we are not comparing matched cohorts.
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