Gaye Seker, Hakan Kulacoglu.
The acceptance rate of local anaesthesia for elective inguinal hernia repair among the surgeons working in a teaching hospital.
J Coll Physicians Surg Pak Jan ;22(2):126-7.

The rates for three different types of anaesthesia used for elective inguinal hernia repairs were retrospectively searched for in the hospital records in 2005 and 2010. In 2005, only 2.1% of elective inguinal hernia repairs were done with local anaesthesia. General anaesthesia was used in 93.7%, whereas regional anaesthesia in 4.2% cases. No day-case outpatient surgery was recorded after any type of anaesthesia. In 2010, local anaesthesia rate increased to 16.2%. Regional anaesthesia rate also reached to 20.6%. Ninety percent of the patients who underwent hernia repair with local anaesthesia were discharged on the day of surgery.

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