Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Fwd: Better mental state with spinal anesthesia with no sedation




General or spinal anesthesia: which is better in the elderly?

Chung F, et al. Anesthesiology. 1987.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/3307537/

Anaesthesia for hip fracture surgery in adults.
Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2016
...comparison of regional versus general anaesthesia for hip (proximal femoral) fracture repair in adults...We did not find a difference between the two techniques, except for deep venous thrombosis in the absence of potent thromboprophylaxis... large randomized trials reflecting actual clinical practice are required before drawing final conclusions. PMID 26899415


Confirmed in one study:
Not confirmed in other studies

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