Relationship among anesthesia technique, surgical stress, and cognitive dysfunction following spinal surgery: a randomized trial.
CONCLUSIONS: The use of combined epidural and general anesthesia followed by postoperative epidural analgesia during the first 48 hours after multilevel thoracolumbar decompression and fusion surgery had a significant positive effect on pain management, cellular immune function, systemic inflammation, and postoperative cognitive function.Clinical trial registration no.: 115080510080 (http://rosrid.ru).
PMID: 31491757 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Journal of Neurosurgery.Spine - Category: Neurosurgery Authors: Ezhevskaya AA, Ovechkin AM, Prusakova ZB, Zagrekov VI, Mlyavykh SG, Anderson DG Tags: J Neurosurg Spine Source Type: research
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