Comparison of general anaesthesia and regional anaesthesia in terms of mortality and complications in elderly patients with hip fracture: A nationwide population-based study

BMJ Open

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2019, Pages

  Ahn, Eun Jin ^a   Kim, Hyo Jin ^a   Kim, Kyung Woo ^a   Choi, Hey Ran ^a   Kang, Hyun ^b   Bang, Si Ra ^a  

^a Inje University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Chung Ang University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

delirium; hip fracture; mortality

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEMORAL NECK FRACTURE; FEMUR TROCHANTERIC FRACTURE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEART INFARCTION; HEMIARTHROPLASTY; HIP FRACTURE; HIP SURGERY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INDEPENDENT VARIABLE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LIVER FAILURE; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY RATE; OPEN REDUCTION (PROCEDURE); OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POPULATION RESEARCH; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE DELIRIUM; PROPENSITY SCORE; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; SEPSIS; TOTAL ARTHROPLASTY; VERY ELDERLY; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; LENGTH OF STAY; MORTALITY; SOUTH KOREA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANESTHESIA, CONDUCTION; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; FEMALE; HIP FRACTURES; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROPENSITY SCORE; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL;

EID: 85071971682     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-029245     Document Type: Article

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