Spinal Anesthesia For Inguinal Hernia Repair

Timing of repair of inguinal hernia is a controversial topic in pediatric surgery and.

Spinal anesthesia for inguinal hernia repair. While open hernia repair may be done under general regional spinal or even local anesthesia with sedation laparoscopic hernia repair is always done under general anesthesia. Cochrane library medline embase cinahl sci expanded. Postoperatively the incidence of urinary retention and catheterization gastrointestinal disturbances nonspecific and postspinal headaches back complaints and respiratory complications was recorded. In 514 patients scheduled for inguinal hernia repair either spinal or general anesthesia was chosen at random.

The purpose of this systematic review is to make an evidence based meta analysis to determine the possible benefits of regional neuraxial block anesthesia compared to general anesthesia in open inguinal hernia repair in adults. If the idea of general anesthesia makes you nervous it shouldn t. Inguinal hernia repair is the most common major surgical procedure performed in the preterm infant. General anesthesia ga in inguinal hernia repair in adults.

General anesthesia is extraordinarily safe with today s precise administration and monitoring. The objective of this meta analysis was to assess the efficacy of spinal anesthesia sa vs. To date there is no consensus on which anesthesia should be used. Inguinal hernia repair is one of the most commonly performed surgical procedures.

Even though local anesthesia with sedation so called monitored anesthesia care is a more cost effective anesthetic technique for inguinal hernia repair general and spinal anesthesia remain the most popular anesthetic techniques at university based teaching programs. Spinal anesthesia at the total joint center duration. Video showing how to perform local anesthesia in an open inguinal hernia repair. Spinal anesthesia may also be used for inguinal hernia repair in outpatients the aim of this study is to compare the safety and effectiveness of local infiltration with spinal anesthesia in the surgical treatment of inguinal hernia on an outpatient basis.

The purpose of this systematic review is to make an evidence based meta analysis to determine the possible benefits of regional neuraxial block anesthesia compared to general anesthesia in open inguinal hernia repair in adults. To date no reports compare the efficacy of spinal anesthesia sa with that of ga for laparoscopic hernia repairs. Laparoscopic total extraperitoneal tep inguinal hernia repair is a well known approach to inguinal hernia repair that is usually performed under general anesthesia ga.