Use of local anaesthetic drugs in day surgery. the experience of two hospitals in Lombardia

Abstract

This prospective observational study was designed in order to systematically detect in two Hospitals the therapeutic approach to surgical ambulatory patients, mainly concerning the anaesthetic choice, time of surgery and postoperative analgesic consumption, as well as to evaluate the patient and physician satisfaction. In two Hospitals, Legnano and Magenta, 203 patients were enrolled among those undergoing either genera! surgery (mainly hernioplasty and coccygeal cyst removal) or hand surgery (mainly carpal tunnel syndrome and Dupuytren disease). Loco-regional anaesthesia were of different types: plexal, troncular, or infiltration. High quality and safety of local anaesthesia were confirmed: 80% of patients not reporting any pain, local or generalized during surgery. Also the postoperative pain was well! controlled: nearly 10% of patients complaining local pain and only 1% generalized pain.

Keywords

• Day surgery
• local
• anaesthetics