Overall, the patients did well; one third were treated as outpatients.

The majority of patients did not require hospitalization and were treated as outpatients.

Results: All 8 patients with no bleeding or infectious complications were treated as outpatients.

Results: Inappropriate admissions indicate that patients who could have been treated as outpatients received services as inpatients.

Three of the four patients were successfully treated as outpatients with the nerve sheath catheters in situ.

Better insight into the risks for a complicated course can increase the percentage of patients treated as outpatients.

Sufferers usually spend no more than a day or two in hospital, and some women are treated as outpatients.

This, together with the negligible requirements for medical management perioperatively, provides a strong argument for a selected group to be treated as outpatients.