Table 4.

Reasons for choosing regional anaesthesia according to other parameters

Reasons for Choosing Regional Anaesthesia	According to the education centre	According to the surgical branch	According to the age		According to the duration of work as a surgeon
p	p	Correlation coefficient (r)	p	Correlation coefficient (r)	p
A1. Risk of general anaesthesia for patients with an ASA risk class of III and above	0.616	0.651	0.003	0.971	0.019	0.812
A2. Protection from complications of general anaesthesia	0.278	0.332	0.106	0.189	0.115	0.154
A3. Patient’s preference	0.193	0.299	0.013	0.875	0.033	0.685
A4. Ability of the surgeon to communicate with the patient (because the patient is awake)	0.978	0.151	0.039	0.679	0.033	0.681
A5. Long-lasting postoperative analgesia	0.285	0.040	−0.033	0.679	−0.113	0.159
A6. Saving time by performing the process in another room	0.024	0.379	−6	0.945	−0.094	0.244
A7. Shorter recovery time postoperatively resulting in time gain	0.026	0.079	0.054	0.502	−0.038	0.634
A8. Preference of anaesthetist	0.127	0.027	−0.158*	0.049	−0.214**	0.007
A9. Patient satisfaction	0.692	0.563	0.155	0.053	0.125	0.119
A10. Early recognition of surgical complications in some patients	0.846	0.382	0.079	0.328	0.018	0.825
A11. Lower risk of thromboembolism	0.213	0.282	−0.048	0.548	−0.028	0.732
A12. Lower cost	0.026	0.657	0.056	0.485	0.124	0.124

Notes: The bold text are statistically significant. *Statistically significant results at threshold of p<0.01. **Statistically significant results of p<0.05.