%0 Journal Article %T Benefits of pre-emptive analgesia by local infiltration at day-case general anaesthetic open inguinal hernioplasty %A A Gardner %A BM Stephenson %A H Jayamanne %A RW Radwan %J Archive of "Annals of The Royal College of Surgeons of England". %D 2018 %R 10.1308/rcsann.2018.0059 %X The open prosthetic repair of inguinal hernias under local anaesthesia (LA) is well established, with the concept of intraoperative ¡®pre-emptive analgesia¡¯ evolving so that patients are as comfortable as possible. We used a peri-incisional LA solution in patients undergoing day-case inguinal hernioplasty under general anaesthesia (GA) and recorded use of analgesia in the immediate postoperative period %K Inguinal hernia %K Day surgery %K Pre-emptive analgesia %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6111913/