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Possibilities of Anesthesia Cost Management by Analysis of Different Anesthesiology Techniques
Ivan Šklebar
Nada Vranko-Nagy
Duška Šklebar
Sažetak
The must of material cost rationalization in medical practice has stimulated the authors to analyze the structure of material expenses of spinal and general anesthesia on a model of arthroscopic knee surgery. The aim was to determine whether the cost of spinal anesthesia was still lower than that of general anesthesia after the introduction of expensive atraumatic needles. In addition, we were interested in the extent to which our daily practice correlated with that in industrialized countries and what were the possibilities of cost rationalization. Using retrograde analysis of two comparable groups of 40 patients each, submitted to arthroscopic knee surgery in general or spinal anesthesia, the anesthesia material expenses were divided into variable and constant expenses that are partially common to both types and partially specific for each type of anesthesia. The sums of variable and specific expenses were compared between the two types of anesthesia, amounting to 78,26 HRK for spinal anesthesia and 115,19 HRK for general anesthesia. There were no major operative or postoperative complications in either patient group. As only 40% of the procedures were performed in spinal anesthesia, whereas the respective figure in industrialized countries exceeds 70%, there is obviously much room for savings. If the percent of the procedures performed in spinal anesthesia were increased to the feasible 60%, a saving of 1470 HRK would be achieved exclusively in knee arthroscopy surgery, considering that some 200 procedures have been performed per year.
Ključne riječi
Anesthesia - economics; Health care costs; Cost and cost analysis; Anesthesia - methods
Hrčak ID:
14091
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Datum izdavanja:
1.5.2006.
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