Breakthrough in breast reconstruction in the context of COVID-19: safety and efficiency of endoscopic breast reconstruction at a day surgery center
Jiao Zhou, Xinran Liu, Yu Feng, Juan Li, Xiangquan Qin, Yixuan Huang, Huanzuo Yang, Mengxue Qiu, Yang Liu, Hongsheng Ma, Qing Lv, Zhenggui Du
Abstract
BACKGROUND: In recently years, breast endoscopic reconstruction surgery is becoming increasingly popular. And we have explored a series of endoscopic breast reconstruction procedures and applied it to our day surgery under the epidemic control of the novel coronavirus. METHODS: The present study was a retrospective analysis. Patients who underwent unilateral breast endoscopic reconstruction surgery in the West China Hospital from April 2017 to February 2021 were included in the study. Patients were divided into the following three groups: ward exploration period (WEP), ward maturation period (WMP), and day surgery period (DSP), respectively. We compared the results of postoperative complications, hospitalization costs, operation time, and BREAST-Q (a patient-reported outcome instrument measuring health-related quality-of-life and patient satisfaction in breast surgery) scale scores among the three groups of patients. RESULTS: DSP =0.243). CONCLUSIONS: We believe that performing our newly developed endoscopic breast reconstructive surgery at a day surgery center is safe and reliable.