THE USE OF BIERS BLOCK FOR DAY-CASE SURGERY

With the increasing popularity of day case surgery it is important to ensure that safe and appropriate techniques are being used. We retrosp ectively reviewed a large series of 732 patients who underwent planned day case hand surgery under intravenous regional anaesthesia (modifie d Bier's block) over a 5-year period. We found a modified Bier's block to be ideally suited to day case surgery with no deaths, minimal morb idity and a success rate in excess of 98%.