Inflatable penile prosthesis implantation in the outpatient setting is safe and feasible: a prospective, singe center study
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract Inflatable penile prosthesis (IPP) implantations are commonly performed in hospital settings which accommodate an overnight stay and are increasingly being performed as day procedures in outpatient settings with same-day discharge. This study sought to investigate the safety and feasibility of day surgery insertion of an IPP. Surgical parameters and incidence of postoperative complications including infection, hospital admission, emergency room visitation, and additional analgesia were investigated. This prospective study included all adult patients undergoing day surgery insertion of an IPP at an ambulatory surgical centre classified as ASA 1-3, between February 2023 and April 2024. All procedures were performed via an infrapubic approach under spinal anesthesia or deep sedation with local anesthesia. 52 patients were enrolled with a mean age of 62.5 ± 3.1 years. All procedures were performed successfully with no intra-operative complications. The mean surgery duration was 65.2 ± 17.9 minutes. The mean recovery time was 115.9 ± 58.2 minutes. No patients required hospital admission or had acquired a post-operative infection. One patient required emergency room visitation, which was unrelated to the surgery. 5.9% (n=3) of patients required additional postoperative analgesia. Our results demonstrate the safety and feasibility of performing an IPP implantation in an outpatient setting.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".