Acta clinica Croatica
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Day surgery is a term that refers to performing an operation under anesthesia without needing to stay in the hospital for more than 24 hours. Day surgery has many advantages over surgery that involves a multiple-day hospital stay. ⋯ However, with the discovery of new, shorter-acting local anesthetics, and the use of smaller-diameter spinal needles, spinal anesthesia is becoming an equivalent anesthetic option for day surgery, if not a better one. Our early expiriences with spinal anesthesia in day surgery are excellent.
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Acta clinica Croatica · Sep 2022
REGIONAL ANESTHESIA IN SPINAL SURGERY: COULD IT BE THE SOLUTION FOR DIFFICULT INTUBATION.
This article includes two topics - anesthesia for spinal surgery and difficult airway, both of them are linked with the same topic, which is regional anesthesia. In recent years, regional anesthesia for spinal surgery has gained a great popularity, where neuraxial blocks are the first choice. Regional anesthesia seems to have benefits against general anesthesia due to lower rate of perioperative and postoperative complications, lower cost and length of stay. ⋯ There are many methods and tools for managing difficult airways, but there are few supporters of regional anesthesia as an option or solution in these cases. Of course, special attention is required during regional anesthesia in a patient with difficult airway, the decision must be correct, and an anesthesiologist must have a preformulated strategy for airway management. However, does not the same happen even when we apply general anesthesia?