[Evaluation of locoregional anesthesia in an emergency-traumatology operating room]. / Evaluation de l'anesthésie loco-régionale dans un bloc de traumatologie d'urgence.

Surgical activities concerning traumatic emergencies have been evaluated during 3.5 months. There has been 371 cases. Most of them concerned hand injuries (48%); others concerned limbs, and 5 multiple injuries, one spinal fracture and 30 various injuries. Loco-regional anesthesia has been preferred in 63% of all cases; 80% of all hand injuries, 100% of all femoral neck fractures. The success rate--no addition of morphinics--has been evaluated at 85%, with use of sedatives in 28%.

[Evaluation of ambulatory anesthesia at CHU, Brest]. / Evaluation de l'anesthésie ambulatoire au CHU de Brest.

Outpatient anaesthesia was investigated for a two-month period by means of a questionnaire filled from the preoperative anaesthesia consultation to the surgical procedure and the discharge of the patient. 868 consultations led to schedule 260 ambulatory procedures. ENT (88 patients), paediatric surgery (73 patients) and gynaecology (63 patients) were most frequently concerned. Indications of ambulatory practice could probably be enlarged provided that recovery rooms and surgical schedules were fully adapted.