Outpatient arthroscopic knee surgery can be performed with general or regional anesthesia.
Recent data suggest that spinal and epidural anesthesia require longer discharge times than
the newer shorter-acting general anesthetic drugs. Ideal premedication drug should relieve
anxiety, produce amnesia and sedation, decrease secretions, prevent nausea and vomiting, have
dose sparing effect on the anaesthetic drugs, and suppress pressor response to laryngoscopy
and intubation. Recently, gabapentin and pregabalin were suggested as pre-operative drugs to
decrease anxiety, stress response to laryngoscopy and post operative pain.