General compared with spinal anesthesia for total hip arthroplasty.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Total hip arthroplasty may be performed under general or spinal anesthesia. The purpose of the current study was to compare perioperative outcomes between anesthetic types for patients undergoing primary elective total hip arthroplasty.

Methods

Patients who had undergone primary elective total hip arthroplasty from 2010 to 2012 were identified from the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program database. Operating room times, length of stay, thirty-day adverse events, and readmission were compared between patients who had received general anesthesia and those who had received spinal anesthesia. Propensity-adjusted multivariate analysis was used to control for selection bias and baseline patient characteristics.

Results

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SUBMITTER: Basques BA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4357526 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature