Ambulatory Surgery Center Experience: Perioperative Complications After Cervical High-Grade Squamous Intraepithelial Lesion Excision

M ost cervical high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions (HSILs) are now treated in the outpatient setting, and large loop excision of the transformation zone (LLETZ) procedure has become the key intervention. Generally, LLETZ is considered to have low surgical morbidity; however, little is known about perioperative complications after this procedure in an ambulatory surgery center (ASC) setting. Ambulatory surgery provides all the safeguards that are standard in a general hospital operating rooms, while ensuring rapid postoperative recovery, safe discharge, maintenance of clinical records, and costs reduction. The present series was undertaken to review the advantages of LLETZ performed according to ASC quality assessment.