Do you need to be hospitalized for kidney stone surgery?

Kidney stone surgery is a surgery with certain risks and complications, so in principle, kidney stone surgery patients need to be hospitalized, and the hospitalization time varies according to the surgery, as follows: 1. open surgery, i.e. open surgery, which requires the kidney to be cut open to remove the stone, patients need to remove the stitches, the healing time of the incision is about one week, and the hospitalization time is about two weeks; 2. at present, the hospitalization time of minimally invasive surgery is gradually shortened. For example, for percutaneous nephrolithoscopy, patients usually need to be hospitalized for 7-10 days, and patients with faster recovery can be discharged in one week. For ureteroscopic surgery, patients can get out of bed on the same day of surgery and can be discharged 2-3 days after surgery. At present, in the vigorous development of same-day surgery, such as ureteral flexible surgery, it is being actively done so that the patient’s hospital stay is one day, with hospitalization in the morning, surgery at noon and discharge in the afternoon, so the hospital stay for minimally invasive surgery is now gradually shortened.