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Revista Cubana de Cirugía
Print version ISSN 0034-7493
Abstract
DEL CAMPO ABAD, Roberto; MEDEROS CURBELO, Orestes Noel; DA COSTA FERNANDEZ, José Manuel and CASTILLO AGUILERA, Miguel Ángel. Cholecystectomy with local anesthesia as a resource in the elderly. Rev Cubana Cir [online]. 2011, vol.50, n.1, pp. 96-101. ISSN 0034-7493.
In the case of a patient presenting with acute cholescystectomy ideally is to remove the gallbladder. Sometimes there are special situations in malnourished elderlies with deterioration of its general status in whom a lengthy anesthesia intervention, even using not much invasive means as the videosurgery, put at risk the life of patient. In such cases the cholescystectomy with local anesthesia is an alternative that must to be taken into account.
Keywords : Cholecystectomy; local anesthesia; acute cholecystitis; elderly patient.