2001
DOI: 10.1007/bf03019759
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Selective spinal anesthesia for outpatient laparoscopy. V: Pharmacoeconomic comparisonvs general anesthesia

Abstract: 279Purpose: To compare the cost and effectiveness of small-dose spinal anesthesia (SP) with general anesthesia (GA) for outpatient laparoscopy. Methods: A retrospective record analysis of 24 patients who received SP were compared with 28 patients who received GA in our Daycare centre. The costs of anesthesia and recovery were calculated, from an institutional perspective, using 1997 Canadian Dollar values. Effectiveness was measured in terms of time for anesthesia and recovery, and postoperative antiemetic and… Show more

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“…The long onset time is a disadvantage of most regional anesthesia techniques (versus general anesthesia), even when techniques with fast onset such as spinal anesthesia are used. 8 The use of MNS can by itself reduce this onset time. Because of the high success rate, additional injections due to ineffective block in one or more terminal nerves are less often required, and delayed surgery is less often seen.…”
Section: How Can We Shorten Onset Time and Time To Readiness For Surgmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The long onset time is a disadvantage of most regional anesthesia techniques (versus general anesthesia), even when techniques with fast onset such as spinal anesthesia are used. 8 The use of MNS can by itself reduce this onset time. Because of the high success rate, additional injections due to ineffective block in one or more terminal nerves are less often required, and delayed surgery is less often seen.…”
Section: How Can We Shorten Onset Time and Time To Readiness For Surgmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Adjuvants during spinal anesthesia reduce the dose requirements of local anesthetic agents and hence their side-effects. [12] Opioids have attained an integral role as a spinal anesthetic adjuvant, but its addition to local anesthetic solution may lead to pruritus and respiratory depression. [3] Clonidine, α2-adrenergic agonist, has been used widely intrathecally and intravenously after subarachnoid block to prolong the sensory and motor blockade without any such adverse effects.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…16 Subtherapeutic IT doses of local anesthetics produce marked analgesia when mixed with narcotics. 17 Our study focused on the time to ambulation (as a marker for recovery time). A short recovery time for ambulatory surgery is important to the patient and to the hospital.…”
Section: R Re Es Su Ul Lt Ts Smentioning
confidence: 99%