Hematocele

Scrotal, urologic surgery has traditionally been conducted in the hospital setting, typically with the use of sedation, spinal anesthesia or general anesthesia. There has been a recent push to move certain scrotal urologic surgeries out of the hospital operating room into a ambulatory, outpatient basis with recent literature demonstrating this in many centers. The use of local anesthesia alone poses numerous benefits. The investigators wish to compare patients who are undergoing invasive scrotal surgery under local anesthetic to those who additionally have a topical anesthetic cream (EMLA) applied to the scrotum to determine if this further increases patient tolerability of these procedures.

There is no clear consensus regarding the benefits of putting a closed suction drain after eversion of the sac in a hydrocele of the tunica vaginalis testis. Our study will find out the benefits if at all of a closed suction drain in hydrocele surgery. The potential complications expected after hydrocelectomy surgery are bleeding, infection, redness, and pain. There is no such trial to date to determine the benefits of putting a closed suction drain after hydrocelectomy surgery.