Spinal Anesthesia or General Anesthesia for Hip Surgery in Older Adults.
Neuman MD, Feng R, Carson JL, Gaskins LJ, Dillane D, Sessler DI, Sieber F, Magaziner J, Marcantonio ER, Mehta S, Menio D, Ayad S, Stone T, Papp S, Schwenk ES, Elkassabany N, Marshall M, Jaffe JD, Luke C, Sharma B, Azim S, Hymes RA, Chin KJ, Sheppard R, Perlman B, Sappenfield J, Hauck E, Hoeft MA, Giska M, Ranganath Y, Tedore T, Choi S, Li J, Kwofie MK, Nader A, Sanders RD, Allen BFS, Vlassakov K, Kates S, Fleisher LA, Dattilo J, Tierney A, Stephens-Shields AJ, Ellenberg SS; REGAIN Investigators.
Neuman MD, et al. Among authors: choi s.
N Engl J Med. 2021 Nov 25;385(22):2025-2035. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa2113514. Epub 2021 Oct 9.
N Engl J Med. 2021.
PMID: 34623788
Clinical Trial.
BACKGROUND: The effects of spinal anesthesia as compared with general anesthesia on the ability to walk in older adults undergoing surgery for hip fracture have not been well studied. ...A total of 666 patients (83.8%) assigned to spinal anesthesia and 769 pa …
BACKGROUND: The effects of spinal anesthesia as compared with general anesthesia on the ability to walk in older adults underg …