[The history of outpatients surgery in Transylvania]

The authors reported 291 outpatient general surgical interventions performed during a 10-year period (1948-1957). All surgeries were scheduled and performed in local anaesthesia with bend of 0.5% novocain and 0.5‰ percain solutions. The type of surgery was abdominal wall surgery in 68 cases, intraabdominal (mainly appendectomy, gastric resection and cholecystectomy) in 144 cases, anorectal in 50 cases, urogenital in 10 cases, thyroid in 12 cases and other interventions in seven cases. There was neither surgical mortality nor complications which needed hospitalisation. Postoperatively the patients returned home or were placed at private accommodation nearly. In the early postoperative period the most important factor was the good analgesia, early movement, physiotherapy and early oral intake of adequate fluid and food.