Complications following regional anesthesia versus general anesthesia for the treatment of distal radius fractures.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Open reduction and internal fixation (ORIF) are commonly utilized for the repair of distal radius fractures (DRF). While general anesthesia (GA) is typically administered for ORIF, recent studies have also demonstrated promising results with the usage of regional anesthesia (RA) in the surgical treatment of distal radius fractures. This study will compare complication rates between the use of RA versus GA for ORIF of DRFs.

Methods

A multi-institutional surgical registry was utilized to identify patients who had undergone ORIF for DRFs from 2005 to 2018-these patients were stratified into GA and RA cohorts. Patients were matched utilizing coarsened-exact-matching (CEM) to compare postoperative outcomes and rates of 30-day complications were compared between the two co

SUBMITTER: Lee R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8164052 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature