Neuraxial and combined neuraxial/general anesthesia compared to general anesthesia for major truncal and lower limb surgery: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 125, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 1931-1945

  Smith, Lauren M ^a   Cozowicz, Crispiana ^b,c   Uda, Yoshiaki ^a   Memtsoudis, Stavros G ^b,c   Barrington, Michael J ^a,d  

^a ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c PARACELSUS MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LENGTH OF STAY; LOWER LIMB; META ANALYSIS; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; SURGICAL INFECTION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THROMBOEMBOLISM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; MORTALITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; SURGERY; TRENDS;

ANESTHESIA, CONDUCTION; ANESTHESIA, EPIDURAL; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; ANESTHESIA, SPINAL; HUMANS; LOWER EXTREMITY; MORTALITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDIES AS TOPIC; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 85019617651     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: 15267598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000002069     Document Type: Article

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