Sentences with phrase «under local anaesthesia»

Under local anaesthesia (1 % Xylocaine) a resting biopsy from the vastus lateralis of one leg was obtained 3 h after commencement of the tracer infusion using a 5 - mm Bergstrom needle modified with suction, during the first trial only.

It is often possible to avoid general anaesthetics and the majority of our procedures are performed under local anaesthesia sometimes combined with sedation.

Thoracoscopy is a relatively simple procedure that can be performed under local anaesthesia and that combines a high diagnostic accuracy (> 90 %) with the advantage of being therapeutic at the same time, when indicated (e.g. to perform pleurodesis).

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As defined by the policy wordings, Day Care Treatments are defined as those medical treatments or surgical procedures which are undertaken under the influence of a general or a local anaesthesia in a hospital or in a day care centre in less than 24 hours because of technological development in medicine which would have otherwise required a hospitalization of 24 hours.