COMPARISON BETWEEN GENERAL AND LOCAL-ANESTHESIA FOR REPAIR OF GROIN HERNIAS
- 1 January 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Vol. 61 (4) , 291-294
Abstract
A prospective study of 104 cases was carried out to compare the use of local and general anesthesia for the elective repair of groin hernias. There were no apparent disadvantages in using a local anesthetic procedure. Patients having local anesthetic herniorrhaphy required postoperative analgesics and antiemetics significantly less often and also returned home sooner (3.2 days) than patients having a general anesthetic (4.1 days). Local anesthesia is a suitable alternative to general anesthesia for repair of groin hernias.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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