Mode establishment and preliminary clinical application of anterior cervical surgery in outpatient setting

To establish the mode of anterior cervical surgery in outpatient setting, and evaluate its preliminary effectiveness. A clinical data of patients who underwent anterior cervical surgery between January 2022 and September 2022 and met the selection criteria was retrospectively analyzed. The surgeries were performed in outpatient setting ( =35, outpatient setting group) or in inpatient setting ( =35, inpatient setting group). There was no significant difference between the two groups ( >0.05) in age, gender, body mass index, smoking, history of alcohol drinking, disease type, the number of surgical levels, operation mode, as well as preoperative Japanese Orthopaedic Association (JOA) score, visual analogue scale score of neck pain (VAS-neck), and visual analogue scale score of upper limb pain (VAS-arm). The operation time, intraoperative blood loss, total hospital stay, postoperative hospital stay, and hospital expenses of the two groups were recorded; JOA score, VAS-neck score, and VAS-arm score were recorded