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Peruvian Journal of Neurosurgery

Benefits of the Spinal anesthesia in Surgery of Disc Herniation

Luciano Ferreira de H. MD, Rafael Rodrigues H. MD, Benedito J. Araújo P. MD, Pierre Vansant de Oliveira E. MD, Gustavo Lopes T. MD
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ABSTRACT

 

Among the symptoms that most affect the man, for sure the pain is more frequent, and by far the most important. It jeopardizes the quality of life the daily activities and hence their productivity. The disc protrusion, is among the diseases that have this symptom, as the main complication. So it is to bring medical relief to the patient. You should immediately try a treatment, and when you do not get resolution with this conduct, it is for surgery.
Objective: It is exactly these patients with surgical indication, to demonstrate a broad casuist (2000 cases), the advantages of spinal anesthesia when anesthetic induction in compitum general, with regard the outcome. So that we can bring a greater contribution to those who
suffer this nosology.
Patients and Methods: In our series, the study included patients who had surgical treatment, with clinical diagnosis and through examination of images of disc herniation, and who agreed to participate in the study, which excluded only those who did not wish to participate in the study. The follow-up
from each patient and compared with data available in the literature so that we could see the gravy of our work.
Results: showed to be extremely favorable with regard to postoperative pain, a good development (99.72% of cases), only two patients had fistulas (0.11%), two cases had infection (0.11% ) and one had to go for general surgery in Trendelenburg position, inappropriate (0.06%).
Conclusion: Therefore it is concluded that this is an aspect that should be exploited by those who take care of this condition, the major advantages of this measure.

     Key words: column, Disc herniation, post-operative, spine, spinal-anesthesia.