Tumescent Liposuction under General Anesthesia

Abstract

Tumescent liposuction has been recently established as a technique of infiltration of dilute concentrations of lidocaine and adrenalin, which appears to drastically limit the amount of blood loss during liposuction surgery. Previous reports focused on its use under local anesthesia. I have found that it is equally applicable to patients undergoing liposuction surgery under general anesthesia and have also found that the concentration of adrenalin can be reduced from 1: 1,000,000 to 1: 4,000,000 without compromising the hemostatic effects. The technique allows relatively large amounts of fat to be aspirated safely without autologous transfusion.