Table 7.

ANESTHESIA RECOVERY TIME

For day surgeries only	N=679*	Recovery time (mins)	P-value†
	N (%)	Mean (±SD‡)
ASA classification			<.001
ASA I	222 (33)	83 (44)
ASA II	311 (46)	99 (60)
ASA III	146 (21)	120 (85)
Narcotics intraoperatively			.51
Yes	578 (85)	99 (63)
No	101 (15)	94 (63)
Premedication			.36
Yes	338 (50)	100 (55)
No	101 (50)	96 (71)

^*Thirty cases omitted requiring postoperative patient hospital admission.

^†Calculated using a 2-sample t test or analysis of variance.

^‡SD=standard deviation.