Adopting Ambulatory Breast Cancer Surgery as the Standard of Care in an Asian Population

Table 3

Details of 16 patients with postanaesthesia events who were admitted for longer than 24 hours.

Patient	Age (years)	Preexisting comorbidities	Surgery	Event	Management	LOS (days)
1	68	Hyperlipidaemia	Mastectomy/AC	Giddiness	Expectant	2
2	47	Hyperlipidaemia	Mastectomy/AC	Giddiness	Expectant	2
3	41	Thalassemia minor	Mastectomy/AC	Giddiness	Expectant	2
4	59	NIL	Mastectomy/AC	Postural hypotension	Fluid challenge	3
5	69	Hypertension,; hyperlipidaemia, previous subdural haematoma	Mastectomy/SLNB	Giddiness	Expectant	2
6	81	NIL	Mastectomy/SLNB	Giddiness	Expectant	2
7	48	NIL	Mastectomy/AC	Giddiness	Expectant	3
8	57	NIL	Mastectomy/AC	Nausea and vomiting	Antiemetics	2
9	71	Hypertension, hyperlipidaemia, diabetes mellitus	WLE/AC	Postural hypotension	Expectant	2
10	48	NIL	Mastectomy/SLNB	Giddiness	Expectant	2
11	67	Hypertension, hyperlipidaemia, diabetes mellitus	Mastectomy/SLNB	Giddiness	Expectant	2
12	79	Hypertension, hyperlipidaemia, diabetes mellitus	Mastectomy/SLNB	Postural hypotension	Expectant	2
13	71	Hypertension, hyperlipidaemia, diabetes mellitus	Mastectomy/SLNB	Giddiness	Expectant	2
14	67	NIL	Mastectomy/SLNB	Giddiness	Expectant	2
15	47	Hypertension, hyperlipidaemia, diabetes mellitus	Mastectomy/AC	Nausea and vomiting	Antiemetics	2
16	54	Hypertension, diabetes mellitus	Mastectomy/AC	Giddiness	Expectant	2

AC: axillary clearance; SLNB: sentinel lymph node biopsy; WLE: wide local excision.