Introduction:

the choice of the ideal anesthetic technique is one that provides high patient safety and rapid recovery at the end of the intervention.

Objective:

to describe intraoperative and postoperative complications according to the type of anesthesia in outpatient surgery in patients treated at Clínica Meditex, in the city of Luanda, Angola.

Methods:

a cross-sectional, observational, descriptive study was carried out from October 2020 to October 2021. The study population consisted of 95 patients over 18 years of age undergoing outpatient surgery. The variables were: age, sex, types of anesthesia; blood pressure; heart rate; peripheral oxygen saturation; intraoperative complications; postoperative complications.

Results:

58 patients were male and the general mean age was 41.2 years; maximum blood pressure had a mean of 120.7 mmHg, mean heart rate was 78.0 and oxygen saturation remained high; the most used type of anesthesia was spinal anesthesia (66.31%), where 28.57% had arterial hypotension; Nausea was one of the most common complications in 23 reported patients, of which 33.33% received spinal anesthesia.

Conclusions:

the male sex predominated. Minimum and maximum blood pressure values, as well as heart rate, maintained dispersion ranges close to their averages. Spinal anesthesia was the most used technique. Hypotension and bradycardia were the most common intraoperative complications. Nausea and arterial hypotension appeared as postoperative complications.

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