Articles: general-anesthesia.
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Day care patients at Law Hospital, who had received either a general or a local anaesthetic in conjunction with minor surgery, were assessed by five tests of mental function before surgery and before discharge from hospital some hours after surgery. These patients did not perform differently from control patients, who were subjected to the same two testing sessions, without intervening surgery or anaesthesia. It was concluded that the day cases were quite capable of normal cognitive functioning at the time of their discharge and that the procedures followed by the hospital for the discharge of day cases are generally adequate.
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Langenbecks Arch Chir · Jan 1982
Comparative Study[Advantages and disadvantages of regional anesthesia in comparison with general anesthesia].
The advantages and disadvantages of different anaesthetic techniques are based upon important premises, such as specific effects on the vital functions of the organism, the relationship of these effects to the general condition of the patient, the specific risk of complications due to a particular anaesthetic technique and the decision of the patient. Only with these points in mind can advantages and disadvantages of the different anaesthetic techniques be determined respective to the individual cases. The choice of a suitable anaesthetic technique should depend upon this determination.