Local Anesthesia With Giant Incarcerated Scrotal Inguinal Hernia Repair

Inguinal hernia operations are frequently performed at general surgery clinics. These procedures can be performed not only under general anesthesia but also with methods like spinal anesthesia, epidural anesthesia, and local anesthesia. Inguinal reparations can be successfully performed with local anesthesia especially on older patients, those with comorbidity and significant risk of anesthesia. An ample amount of studies in literature underline the fact that the results of hernia reparations performed under local anesthesia are no different than the results of hernia reparations done under general anesthesia. This report discusses the case of an 87-yearold male patient with comordid diseases like hypertension, diabetes mellitus, congestive heart failure, and chronic kidney failure as well as irreducible inguinal hernia who had to undergo emergency hernia reparation under local anesthesia. Although inguinal hernia reparation under local anesthesia has been comprehensively evaluated in literature, there is very limited information on the reparation of incarcerated inguinal hernias under local anesthesia. Consequently, we think that it is possible to use local anesthesia successfully to surgically treat incarcerated hernias with low risk of strangulation especially on senior and comorbid patients. However, we also believe that it would be of utmost significance to conduct a comparative study between emergency hernia operations performed under local anesthesia and general anesthesia in order to be able to recommend a safer solution on the subject.