The ambulatory treatment of varicose veins pathology. Personal experience

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: In time of Surgery Cost Planning, progress is every step to ward an efficient and complete ambulatory treatment of pathology. In the field of venous surgery, a large share of patients take profit from a complete treatment in a single hospitalisation day.

MATERIALs: The Authors carried out 21 strippings of great saphenous vein in 21 patients with local and regional anaesthesia.

RESULTS: The results were the same as those of the traditional operation carried out with the help of spinal anaesthesia for a greater safety and comfort of the surgeon’s action. Moreover the authors obtained an immediate take off of the patient and his discharging after a few hours under observation.

COMMENTS: The particular surgery technique perfectly copes with the anaesthetic method and fully profits from it because it limits local complication and unacceptable aesthetic defects. The chosen anaesthetic technique and the early take off haven’t brought to any complications; moreover subcutaneous bleeding has been reduced, due to the absence of vasoparalysis typical of spinal anaesthesia.