[Short-term elective surgery--report on 6-years of experience]

The objective of the work was to evaluate six years of experience with operation of a department of short-term elective surgical care. The basic method of such a department is separation of the spectrum of elective operations and spatial and organizational separation of this care. The results (6077 operations in 5538 patients, the mean hospitalization period 2.38 days, total incidence of complications 2.25%, no death, very low incidence of surgical infections permit the conclusion that institutions of this type are also under our local conditions satisfactory alternative treatment of surgical patients.