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Table 1 Patients’ characteristics

From: Selective spinal anesthesia with hyperbaric prilocaine provides better perioperative pain control than local anesthesia for ambulatory inguinal hernia repair without affecting discharging time: a randomized controlled trial

 

Group A

(n. 66)

Group B

(n. 66)

Sex (M/F)

65/1

64/2

Age (years)

58 ± 8

57 ± 9

Body mass index (kg/m2)

27.2 ± 4.2

28.1 ± 6.1

ASA (most frequent value)

2

2

Hernia dimension (cm)

8.2 ± 4.2

8.4 ± 5.1

  1. Values are reported as number (percentage) of subjects or mean ± standard deviation (SD)
  2. Group A selective spinal anesthesia, Group B local anesthesia