Effect of anaesthesia type on postoperative mortality and morbidities: a matched analysis of the NSQIP database

Conclusions. After adjusting for clinical and patient characteristic confounders, RA was associated with significantly lower odds of several postoperative complications, decreased hospital length of stay, but not mortality when compared with GA.

Source: British Journal of Anaesthesia - December 29, 2016 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Saied, N. N., Helwani, M. A., Weavind, L. M., Shi, Y., Shotwell, M. S., Pandharipande, P. P. Tags: Clinical Practice Source Type: research