General Surgery and Spinal Anesthesia

Abstract

Anesthesia and anesthetist are the co-worker to surgery. Surgeon and anesthetist with other subordinates is the surgical team. Patient satisfaction, surgical comfort to surgeon, patient, anesthetist and surgical team is the main stray and key point to select the type anesthesia to be given to particular individual. We had been doing a lot of general surgery under spinal anesthesia. Here main focus is laid down on gall bladder and renal surgery, which are relatively difficult to get done in spinal anesthesia without good co-operation of anesthetist. We had been doing renal and gall bladder surgery under spinal for the last more than 40 years, as there used to have no anesthetist in peripheral hospitals of Nepal, so giving spinal anesthesia by self and then doing surgery was the trend, which is now changed, as well-trained anesthetists are now available even in every big peripheral hospital of the country. We are presenting a record of last 10 years of renal and gall bladder surgery done under spinal anesthesia. We have done total 248 cases of renal stones including 12 nephrectomies for gross hydronephrosis with nonfunctional kidney big mass and 355 cases of open cholecystectomy through classical transverse subcostal incision.