Computerised dynamic posturography to assess recovery comparing general anaesthesia with sedation and local anaesthesia for day case nasal surgery

Computerised dynamic posturography (CDP) can be used as an early marker of recovery to street fitness in patients undergoing ambulatory surgery. We st udied three groups of patients undergoing nasal surgery. The goal of this s tudy was to determine whether recovery, as assessed by CDP is more rapid in patients having nasal surgery under sedation coupled with local anaesthesi a or those having surgery under general anaesthesia. We further assessed th e acceptability of sedation accompanied by local anaesthesia. A control gro up was included to determine if there is a learning curve to posturography. There was no difference between the two study groups in terms of balance. Balance was not significantly impaired at 3 h postoperative testing.