Pediatric Outpatient Surgery Unit in Barcelona

The study was carried out in the pediatric outpatient surgery unit of a hospital in Barcelona. A third-level University Hospital specialized in the health of children and pregnant women and the first pediatric center in Spain to implement an Outpatient Surgery Unit. The unit has 23 armchairs/individual beds with enough space for two accompanying persons (father/mother) to be with the child during the preparation and after the surgical procedure. Four surgical procedures are performed (two in the morning and two in the afternoon), which can be in the specialty of surgery, ophthalmology, traumatology, otorhinolaryngology, dermatology and dentistry, depending on the surgical schedule.