Research Progress of Tumescent Anesthesia / 中国微创外科杂志

ABSTRACT

[Summary] Tumescent anesthesia is mainly used in liposuction operation and has produced an exemplary safety record for this technique to date .Now surgical applications for the technique widely vary ranging across vascular surgery , breast surgery , plastic surgery and so on .It can be used in both hospital-and day-case environments .In this review we summarized the research progress of tumescent anesthesia in respect with indications , selection and maximum dose of local anesthetics , additives use , and safety .