Association between neuraxial anaesthesia or general anaesthesia for lower limb revascularisation surgery in adults and clinical outcomes: population based comparative effectiveness study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine the associations between neuraxial anaesthesia or general anaesthesia and clinical outcomes, length of hospital stay, and readmission in adults undergoing lower limb revascularisation surgery.

Design

Comparative effectiveness study using linked, validated, population based databases.

Setting

Ontario, Canada, 1 April 2002 to 31 March 2015.

Participants

20 988 patients Ontario residents aged 18 years or older who underwent their first lower limb revascularisation surgery in hospitals performing 50 or more of these surgeries annually.

Main outcome measures

Primary outcome was 30 day all cause mortality. Secondary outcomes were in-hospital cardiopulmonary and renal complications, length of hospital stay, and 30 day readmissions. Multivar

SUBMITTER: Roberts DJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7687020 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature