a system in which a patient comes into hospital for a surgical procedure, has the operation, recovers and is released from hospital in the course of a single day
The operation can be performed as day surgery under a local anaesthetic.
private clinics performing day surgery
Examples of 'day surgery' in a sentence
day surgery
The day surgery was closed and 30 patients sent home while pest control experts were called in to contain the problem.
The Sun (2014)
Only in this case, it will be keyhole day surgery, hopefully under local anaesthetic.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The Nottingham centre is one of the largest providers of day surgery in Europe.