[Quality of reawakening and dismissal after anesthesia with various techniques for minor surgical intervention. Clinical and medico-legal aspects].

Different drug combinations were compared in order to assess the quality of anesthesiological control, tolerability and the speed of reawakening and recovery of self-sufficiency in 60 patients undergoing minor surgery. Propofol, combined with fentanyl and N2O due to its inadequate analgesic cover, showed a quickness of action with scarse side-effects, prompt reawakening and rapid recovery of deambulatory self-sufficiency in comparison to the associations of thiopentonefentanyl and thiopentone-isoflurane, thus indicating its preferential use in short surgical operations which can be carried out under a day hospital regimen. In addition, some medico-legal aspects of dimissional of recent developments regarding professional responsibility.