Rarely. The vast majority of patients go home on the same day as the treatment with bandages on the legs and painkillers

EVLT is a minimally invasive way of treating varicose veins. Instead of making a cut in the groin and stripping the vein from the thigh, the surgeon uses a fine laser fibre to zap the vein from the inside.

The average hospital stay for a hip replacement patient is around 3 days. In some cases, fixing one hip reduces the stress on the other hip, thus giving another two or three years if the arthritis is not too advanced. Each individual case is different.

The procedure is done as an ambulatory surgery. This means that you will come into the hospital on the day of surgery and go home later that afternoon or evening. All the children receive general anesthesia during surgery and go to the recovery room until fully awake.

It depends on the complexity of the operation and your recovery. On an average you can go home walking in 7 to 10 days.

EVLT is less painful than open surgery and people return to work faster than after open surgery. There is less bruising and there are no incisions in the top of the leg. EVLT can also be done under local anaesthetic without the patient being put to sleep.

Remarkably painless. Most patients find they need to take painkillers for a few days only. Sometimes patients can feel the treated vein as a tender cord in the thigh after the operation, but this feeling goes away within a couple of weeks.

Remarkably few. The commonest complication is a vein irritation that lasts a couple of weeks, but very few patients get this.

Lap RY gastric bypass patients usually ask to leave on the second day after operation. The open cases tend to stay 3 days. We do not force any patients out of the hospital and most request to leave. Occasionally, a patient may have a serious complication and be in the hospital for a month or more.