Ambulatory Surgery Research Laboratory

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The LRCA outpatient surgery research laboratory is a research laboratory created in 2023, attached to the faculty of medicine of the SAAD DAHLEB BLIDA-1 university.
Its main objective is the promotion of the practice of outpatient surgery in Algeria, by creating pilot units serving as a reference for this activity; and the development of national recommendations, based on the results of the various studies carried out by the specialists who are members of the laboratory.

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Message from the President

"In 2009, outpatient surgery celebrated its 100th anniversary! What a journey since then, to experience real development over the last 30 years, particularly in the United States. This development was made possible thanks to the many advances made in surgery and anesthesia. Outpatient surgery is not an invention. It is an innovation, generating progress in organizations, behavioral reforms, and professionalization of health professionals. It is an organizational concept centered on the patient. Indeed, it is not the act that is outpatient but the patient. The selection of patients must be based on medical, psychosocial and environmental criteria.

Based on these findings, the general surgery department of Blida decided to open an ambulatory surgery unit (UCA), unique on a national scale, whose pilot phase began in March 2019, which unfortunately, was hampered by the Covid-19 pandemic. The aim is to achieve a sustainable transfer from traditional hospitalization to the outpatient sector. The UCA will in particular contribute to reducing public health expenditure, to de-dramatize the surgical act for the patient, to ensure a better organization of work, an improvement in the quality of interventions, a reduction in days of hospitalization.

Performing outpatient surgery means submitting surgery to the law of efficiency and productivity. It is not about "bobology" or office surgery. On the contrary, various procedures are performed, ranging from wall surgery to pure excision carcinological surgery without reconstruction. It must be understood that it is not about making records, speed is not the goal, it is the result. It is necessary to organize, manage and evaluate. The development of outpatient surgery has been listed as a priority by the general surgery department of Blida, setting a target of 50% of surgical procedures performed on an outpatient basis by 2027.

The short-term future perspective is to create a research laboratory in ambulatory surgery (LRCA) whose objective is to promote this procedure and to ensure university training by giving all the actors involved in ambulatory surgery (doctors , non-medical staff, administrative staff, residents) the knowledge and means necessary to create, develop and evaluate day surgery activities, ensuring quality of care and patient safety.

Finally, the care of these "active" patients who "return home" after the operation requires clear and precise texts from the legislator and learned societies, complete and detailed information on the operating procedure, but also flexibility to allow the medical team to prioritize the risk/benefit ratio when necessary."

Professor Ait Benamer Noureddine

Head of general surgery

Frantz-Fanon Hospital

Blida University Hospital Center 

Research Teams

Surgery

visceral

Team 1

Anesthesia

ambulatory

Team 2

Surgery

endocrine

Team 3

Surgery

gynecological

Team 4

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