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A comparison of two regional anesthetic techniques for outpatient knee arthroscopy
Julia E Pollock1, Michael F Mulroy, Elyssa Bent
1*Department of Anesthesiology, Virginia-Mason Medical Center; and †The Mountain-Whisper-Light Statistical Consulting, Seattle, Washington.
Anesthesia and Analgesia
|July 23, 2003
Abstract
Implications:
Small dose lidocaine spinal anesthesia and 3% 2-chloroprocaine epidural anesthesia provided comparable discharge times for outpatient knee arthroscopy. The incidence of transient neurologic symptoms with small-dose lidocaine spinal anesthesia was 12%.