Comparative perioperative outcomes associated with neuraxial versus general anesthesia for simultaneous bilateral total knee arthroplasty

Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 638-644

  Stundner, Ottokar ^a   Chiu, Ya Lin ^b   Sun, Xuming ^b   Mazumdar, Madhu ^b   Fleischut, Peter ^c   Poultsides, Lazaros ^d   Gerner, Peter ^e   Fritsch, Gerhard ^e   Memtsoudis, Stavros G ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY   (United States)

^b Department of Public Health Sciences   (United States)

^c NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^e PARACELSUS MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMENTIA; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEART DISEASE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INFECTION; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; NEURAXIAL ANESTHESIA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANESTHESIA, EPIDURAL; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; ANESTHESIA, SPINAL; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL;

EID: 84868270808     PISSN: 10987339     EISSN: 15328651     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AAP.0b013e31826e1494     Document Type: Article

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