Daycase thyroid surgery

Thyroid surgery is offered as a daycase procedure as a routine in my practice.

We have acheived this routine excellent result by a number of changes in the way that the surgery and anaesthetic is undertaken.

Key elements include

• small incisions
• preservation of the muscles in the neck (strap muscles - still cut by some surgeons)
• local anaesthetic nerve blocks to reduce pain to a minimum during and after the surgery
• very light anaesthetics to minimise sickness etc after surgery

These elements combine together to result in over 90% of my patients going home the same day painfree and consequently able to return to work more quickly.

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