Day-case pelvic osteotomy for developmental dysplasia of the hip

摘要

Reducing admissions and encouraging day-case surgery is the focus of many quality and service improvement projects. This is especially true given the current pandemic, with COVID-19 placing pressures on inpatient beds; a reduced duration of exposure to the healthcare environment is therefore desirable. This paper from Dublin (Ireland) examined the feasibility of day-case pelvic osteotomies, which is certainly not something many of us in paediatric orthopaedics will have considered an option; and possibly not the most obvious first choice for paediatric day-case initiatives.