Anesthetic Approach in Ambulatory Vitrectomy: Peribulbar Block vs. Balanced General Anesthesia

Table 1

Results according to the type of anesthesia.

		N; Peribulbar block	N; Balanced general anesthesia	%
Postoperative pain at 1 h, 3 h, and 6 h	Yes	0	7	33.3	0.001
	No	11	3	66.7
Intraoperative hypotension	Yes	9	3	57.1	0.03
	No	2	7	42.9
Oral diet introduction time	<1 hour	11	0	52.4	0.000
	1-2 hours	0	0	0
	2-3 hours	0	6	28.6
	3-4 hours	0	4	19
Operating room occupancy time	Mean	70.91 min	104.50 min		0.027
	Median	70 min	90 min
	Minimum	45 min	60 min
	Maximum	90 min	180 min
Time to hospital discharge	Mean	15.18 h	21.8 h		0.004
	Median	17 h	22.5 h
	Minimum	11 h	17 h
	Maximum	24 h	24 h
Pharmacological costs	Mean	5.45€	33.5€		0.004
	Median	4.65€	12.09€
	Minimum	4.65€	5.4€
	Maximum	9.06€	90.92€