General versus spinal anaesthesia for patients aged 70 years and older with a fracture of the hip

Bone and Joint Journal

Volumn 97-B, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 689-695

  Basques, B A ^a   Bohl, D D ^a   Golinvaux, N S ^a   Samuel, A M ^a   Grauer, J G ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; GROUPS BY AGE; HEART ARREST; HEART INFARCTION; HIP FRACTURE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KIDNEY FAILURE; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OPERATING ROOM; OPERATION DURATION; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; SURGICAL INFECTION; THROMBOEMBOLISM; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VERY ELDERLY; WOUND DEHISCENCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION STUDY; HIP FRACTURES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; ANESTHESIA, SPINAL; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HIP FRACTURES; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OPERATIVE TIME; PATIENT READMISSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84929121304     PISSN: 20494394     EISSN: 20494408     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1302/0301-620X.97B5.35042     Document Type: Article

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