Resumen

OJEDA LEON, HERIBERTO; CHICO CAPOTE, ARACELI; TAMAYO ARIAS, ISABEL  y  ESTEVEZ DEL TORO, MIGUEL. Local intraarticular anesthesia in ambulatory surgical arthroscopy: experience with 1 000 patients. Rev Cubana Ortop Traumatol [online]. 1996, vol.10, n.1, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1561-3100.

A study with a sample of 1 000 patients who underwent ambulatory surgical arthroscopy in different articulations by using a local intraarticular anesthetic method with Lidocaine 2 % at "Hermanos Ameijeiras" Clinical and Surgical Hospital, in Havana City, was carried out. The method is presented and it is shown the incidence of adverse reactions caused by the anesthetic agent on the cardiovascular and respiratory systems and on the central nervous system after its administration. It was performed an anesthetic evaluation of the method and it was obtained a satisfactory response in 93 % of patients, with a minimum (16 %) of adverse reactions. It is reached the conclusion that this anesthetic method is useful in the habitual surgical arthroscopic procedures.

Palabras clave : ARTHROSCOPY; ANESTHESIA, LOCAL [adverse effects]; LIDOCAINE [adverse effects]; INJECTIONS, INTRAARTICULAR.