Comparison of general anesthesia and combined spinal-epidural anesthesia for retrograde intrarenal surgery

Abstract

Combined spinal-epidural anesthesia, which produces favorable outcomes in the intraoperative and postoperative periods, will become an alternative to general anesthesia. Also, the costs associated with these two anesthesia methods were calculated, it was found that the total cost of anesthesia medications and materials per operation was similar both methods.