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British Journal of Anaesthesia 2007 99(5):744-745; doi:10.1093/bja/aem283
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© The Board of Management and Trustees of the British Journal of Anaesthesia 2007. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy using spinal anaesthesia

G. Tzovaras*, K. Pratsas and S. Georgopoulou

Larissa, Greece

* E-mail: gtzovaras@hotmail.com

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Editor—We read with interest the paper by Van Zundert and colleagues1 and wish to comment on this, and share our experience. We have published a feasibility study on laparoscopic cholecystectomy, with CO2 pneumoperitoneum, using lumbar spinal anaesthesia in fit patients.2 The preliminary results of a controlled randomized study of ours comparing spinal to general anaesthesia for laparoscopic cholecystectomy are to appear soon in Archives of Surgery.3 From our studies, it is evident that spinal anaesthesia is not only feasible and safe for laparoscopic cholecystectomy, but it is also associated with some advantages for the patients, mainly better postoperative pain control. We have therefore recently extended the use of spinal anaesthesia in other laparoscopic procedures like hernia repairs. . . . [Full Text of this Article]

I. Ahmed*

Leicester, UK

* E-mail: zundert@iae.nl

A. A. J. van Zundert1,* and J. A. W. Wildsmith2

1 Eindhoven, The Netherlands
2 Dundee, UK

* E-mail: zundert@iae.nl


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