Factors affecting the spread of bupivacaine in the adult thoracic paravertebral space

✍ Scribed by S. Cheema; J. Richardson; P. McGurgan

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 293 KB
• Volume: 58
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0003-2409
• DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2044.2003.03189_1.x

✦ Synopsis

Summary

Patients in a teaching hospital in Scotland were given the opportunity to ask for further information relating to their peri‐operative anaesthetic management. One investigator visited all of the patients pre‐operatively and asked a standard list of anaesthetic‐related questions. Our objectives were to determine what additional information patients would request before giving their consent to anaesthesia. The majority of patients (__n=__469, 67%) had no further questions at a point when so‐called consent could have been obtained. Of the questions asked, 209 (66%) were related to anaesthesia and 93 (30%) to the proposed surgery. Only two patients in the group studied requested a full explanation of their peri‐operative anaesthetic management. The question most commonly asked related to the duration of surgery, with less priority being given to questions relating to complications of anaesthesia.