Table 8: Recovery After Endovascular Laser Ablation or Surgical Stripping for VV.

Author	Anesthesia for ELT	Anesthesia for Surgery	Recovery for ELT	Recovery for Surgery	Recovery Difference
Darwood (89)	Local tumescent anesthesia	Day case general anesthesia	85.3% (29/34) for ELT 1 and 83.3% (20/24) for ELT 2 returned to normal activity within a week and the median time to normal activity 2days for ELT1 and 2 days for ELT2	56% (14/25) to normal activity within a week and median time to normal activity 7 days	ELT < Surgery p = .001
DeMedeiros (90)	Subarachnoid or epidural anesthesia	Subarachnoid or epidural anesthesia			NA (within-person RCT)
Disselhoff (92)	38 general anesthesia and 22 local tumescent anesthesia	patient choice of anesthesia (49 general anesthesia and 11 local tumescent anesthesia)	75% return to normal activity by 10 days	45% return to normal activity by 10 days	ELT < Surgery p = .001
Kalteis (93)	General anesthesia 48%, regional 51% [ n= 47]	General anesthesia 34%, regional anesthesia 66% [n=48]	Median return to work time 20 days (range: 14.0 - 25.5)	Median return to work time 14.0 days (range: 12.8 - 25)	ELT ~ Surgery p = .054
Rasmussen (94)	Office based local tumescent anesthesia and conscious sedation (midazolam)	Office based local tumescent anesthesia and conscious sedation (midazolam)	Return to normal activity time mean days 7.7 ± 6.1 (range: 0 - 29)	Return to normal activity mean time days 6.9 ± 7.0 (range: 0 - 29)	ELT ~ Surgery p > .05
			Return to work time mean of 7.6 ± 4.9 days (range: 1- 28)	Return to work mean time 7.0 ± 6.0 days (range: 1 - 31)
Theivacumar (95)	Local tumescent anesthesia	General anesthesia	NR	NR

ELT refers to endovascular laser therapy; NA, not applicable; NR, not reported