Definition of ambulatory
The word ambulatory is used in medicine to refer both to a level of primary health care as to the nature of a procedure that does not require that the patient remains hospitalized or confined to carry it out. From the point of view of the levels of health care, medical services may be provided in institutions of varying complexity that together make up the health system. The basic level consists of the ambulatory, these can be rural or urban-type according to the number of inhabitants of the population where are located, on one higher level of complexity are clinics that may consist of several medical specialties as well as the possibility to carry out diagnostic procedures and study.
The higher level of complexity, from the point of view of health institutions, corresponds to hospitals, these according to their size and orientation to a particular area of health can have multiple specialties and subspecialties, likewise will have the capacity to carry out various kinds of both diagnostic and therapeutic procedures; They also have areas for the hospitalization of patients in General, intermediate and intensive care, observation rooms, rooms burnt, isolation ward, asthmatic room, room for minor surgery, operating room, delivery room, areas of emergencies or emergencies and morgue. Many hospitals also are the headquarters of studies of undergraduate and postgraduate studies in different medical specialties making that further academic bodies constitute.
The ambulatory also refers to those procedures that are carried out without it being necessary to hospitalize or detain the patient. The vast majority of diagnostic studies such as images (x-ray, tomography, ultrasound and resonance), functional tests and biopsy sampling studies are conducted during the day and performed once the patient can be removed.
Today is possible also that subsequent procedures for treatment as some surgeries and after a short period of observation and recovery from anesthesia the patient may be discharged the same day, this was made possible by the development of techniques for laparoscopic surgery in which through minimal incisions, and support with video and fiber optic equipment can carry out procedures minimally in passive, as in the case of the Arthroscopy of various joints, gynecological surgery for sterilization, resection of cysts and fibroids, as well as treatment of endometriosis; abdominal surgery also benefits from these procedures especially in the case of gallbladder or cholecystectomy surgery as well as in the treatment of appendicitis with appendectomy.
The higher level of complexity, from the point of view of health institutions, corresponds to hospitals, these according to their size and orientation to a particular area of health can have multiple specialties and subspecialties, likewise will have the capacity to carry out various kinds of both diagnostic and therapeutic procedures; They also have areas for the hospitalization of patients in General, intermediate and intensive care, observation rooms, rooms burnt, isolation ward, asthmatic room, room for minor surgery, operating room, delivery room, areas of emergencies or emergencies and morgue. Many hospitals also are the headquarters of studies of undergraduate and postgraduate studies in different medical specialties making that further academic bodies constitute.
The ambulatory also refers to those procedures that are carried out without it being necessary to hospitalize or detain the patient. The vast majority of diagnostic studies such as images (x-ray, tomography, ultrasound and resonance), functional tests and biopsy sampling studies are conducted during the day and performed once the patient can be removed.
Today is possible also that subsequent procedures for treatment as some surgeries and after a short period of observation and recovery from anesthesia the patient may be discharged the same day, this was made possible by the development of techniques for laparoscopic surgery in which through minimal incisions, and support with video and fiber optic equipment can carry out procedures minimally in passive, as in the case of the Arthroscopy of various joints, gynecological surgery for sterilization, resection of cysts and fibroids, as well as treatment of endometriosis; abdominal surgery also benefits from these procedures especially in the case of gallbladder or cholecystectomy surgery as well as in the treatment of appendicitis with appendectomy.