Thyroidectomy under local anaesthesia in a poor resource health facility in Northeastern Nigeria

Abstract

Background: The provision of quality health care is one of the priorities of every government. The quality of such care is however, limited by the human and technical resources available. The varying types of thyroidectomy for Goitres are often done under general anaesthesia, unless, there is a contraindication such as, cardiopulmonary instability. Recently, there is increasing evidence that thyroidectomy could be done under local anaesthesia with or without anxiolytics or opioid analgesia augmentation. This study reports on our experience of performing thyroidectomy under infiltrative local anaesthesia.