Revista Cubana de Medicina Militar (Jun 2022)
Outpatient surgical treatment in the solution of the thyroid gland conditions
Abstract
Introduction: Thyroid surgery is one of the most commonly performed procedures in otorhinolaryngology, and head and neck surgery. Traditionally, it presented hospital stays that were sometimes longer than 3 days. Objective: To describe the results of major outpatient surgery in the solution of surgical conditions of the thyroid gland. Methods: A descriptive study was carried out in 307 patients with thyroid gland disorders who received outpatient surgical treatment. A data collection model was created for the variables: age, sex, thyroid disease, type of surgical intervention, anesthetic method and complications, absolute and relative frequencies were calculated. Results: The most frequent age group was between 30-39 years (32.57 %), females predominated (91.53 %). The most frequent thyroid conditions were adenomatous goiter (23.13 %) and carcinoma (20.85 %), the most frequent surgical intervention was total thyroidectomy (39.08 %), surgical acupuncture analgesia was applied in 39 patients (12.71 %), 8 patients presented postoperative complications (2.6 %). The hospital stay was less than 24 hours in 99.02 % of the patients. Conclusions: Major outpatient surgery is used in the solution of surgical conditions of the thyroid gland, more frequent in benign conditions, in patients over 19 years of age, with a predominance of females, the surgical intervention performed with greater frequency is total thyroidectomy. The most frequent was general orotracheal anesthesia, reserving acupuncture surgical analgesia for selected cases.
