EVAR: Better off Awake?

Several observational analyses (including from within the IMPROVE trial, the UK's National Vascular Registry, and the US Vascular Quality Initiative) have suggested significant reductions in mortality associated with the use of local anaesthesia for ruptured aneurysm repair.1,2 There are no randomised studies of anaesthetic techniques for elective standard endovascular aneurysm repair, and in this context Dovell et  al.3 have performed a detailed analysis using data from the UK's National Vascular Registry.
Source: European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery - Category: Surgery Authors: Tags: Invited Commentary Source Type: research