A ten-year analysis of the reasons for death following ambulatory surgery: Nine closed claims declared to the SHAM insurance

There was only one case where the complication was aggravated due to the delay of care provision and this was because of a lack of information on the complications requiring an emergency return (abdominal pain after laparoscopy). In all the other cases, death would also probably have occurred during conventional hospitalisation, either because it was unavoidable or because the patient was too far from the surgery.