Effect of anesthetic method on incidence of delirium after total hip replacement arthroplasty in South Korea: a population-based study using national health insurance claims data.

Conclusions: Our results revealed that the anesthetic method was not associated with the incidence of postoperative delirium. In addition, the results suggest that male patients and patients with acquired immune deficiency syndrome undergoing total hip replacement arthroplasty carefully managed for postoperative delirium after surgery. PMID: 31378056 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Korean Journal of Anesthesiology - Category: Anesthesiology Tags: Korean J Anesthesiol Source Type: research