Conscious Sedation versus General Anesthesia for Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: Insights from the NCDR ® STS/ACC TVT Registry.

Conclusions -In U.S. practice, conscious sedation is associated with briefer length of stay and lower in-hospital and 30-day mortality compared to TAVR with general anesthesia in both unadjusted and adjusted analyses. These results suggest the safety of conscious sedation in this population, though comparative effectiveness analyses using observational data cannot definitively establish the superiority of one technique over another.
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Source: Circulation - September 1, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Hyman MC, Vemulapalli S, Szeto WY, Stebbins A, Patel PA, Matsouaka RA, Herrmann HC, Anwaruddin S, Kobayashi T, Desai ND, Vallabhajosyula P, McCarthy FH, Li R, Bavaria JE, Giri J Tags: Circulation Source Type: research