SPİNAL ANESTEZİ SONRASI GÖRÜLEN KOMPLİKASYONLARIN DEMOGRAFİK DAĞILIMI VE HASTA MEMNUNİYETİ

Objective: Patient satisfaction is an important issue for all medical sciences. Spinal anesthesia associated patient satisfaction is a prominent subject for anesthesiology. Demographic distribution of the patient satisfaction, reflection of patients’ thoughts and complications seen after spinal anesthesia may show some variations with respect to geographic region. Therefore, we aimed to investigate the patient satisfaction for cases undergone spinal anesthesia.Material and Methods: We performed a prospective observational study involving 236 patients. Patients, who had spinal anesthesia for their surgery, were separated into 7 geographical regions and patient satisfaction and minor complications were reviewed. After the surgery, we questioned complications and patient satisfaction in the 2nd, 6th, 12th, 24th hours and 7th day of the operation. Results: Most of our patients were from Marmara (24.6%) and the Black Sea region (22, 9%). Patient satisfaction from spinal anesthesia was significantly high (n: 171; 72, 5%) (p<0.001). Most common minor complications were nausea and vomiting for 63 patients (26, 7%) and low back pain for 52 patients (20, 1%). Conclusion: Patients questioned for their spinal anesthesia experience showed wide variations about their approach to their own minor complications and their expression of satisfaction. Patient satisfaction is affected by several factors and remains in a conceptual confusion. We believe that, if a more extensive and actual information is given to patients prior to regional anesthesia intervention, this can reduce confusion and improve patient satisfaction