CHIVA to spare the small and great saphenous veins after wrong-site surgery on a normal saphenous vein: a case report.

CHIVA (Cure Conservatrice et Hemodynamique de l'Insufficience Veineuse en Ambulatoire) is a type of operation for varicose veins that avoids destroying the saphenous vein and collaterals. We report a case of CHIVA treatment of two saphenous veins to spare these veins. The patient previously had a normal great saphenous vein stripped in error in a wrong-site surgery, while two saphenous veins that did have reflux were not operated.

[Outpatient preoperative evaluation and clients' satisfaction.].

Background And Objectives: Increasingly, anesthesiologists are performing preoperative evaluation. This study aimed at transversally evaluating external and internal clients satisfaction with Santa Casa de Porto Alegre outpatient preoperative evaluation department (APOA).

Methods: A questionnaire was applied for one month to external clients (patients) before and after evaluation, and internal clients (anesthesiologists and surgeons) to evaluate their satisfaction with the preoperative evaluation department.