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Efficiency of spinal anesthesia versus general anesthesia for lumbar spinal surgery: a retrospective analysis of 544 patients. [PDF]

Local and Regional Anesthesia, 2017
BACKGROUND: Previous studies have shown varying results in selected outcomes when directly comparing spinal anesthesia to general in lumbar surgery. Some studies have shown reduced surgical time, postoperative pain, time in the postanesthesia care unit ...
Attiah, Mark A., Kallan, Michael J., Koenigsberg, Rebecca, Kofke, W. Andrew, Kositratna, Guy, Marcotte, Paul J., Pierce, John T., Syre, Peter, Welch, William C., Wyler, MD, David   +9 more
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Spinal Anesthesia or General Anesthesia for Hip Surgery in Older Adults.

New England Journal of Medicine, 2021
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.
M. Neuman, Rui Feng, J. Carson, Lakisha J. Gaskins, D. Dillane, D. Sessler, F. Sieber, J. Magaziner, E. Marcantonio, S. Mehta, Diane A. Menio, S. Ayad, T. Stone, S. Papp, E. Schwenk, N. Elkassabany, Mitchell H. Marshall, J. D. Jaffe, Charles Luke, B. Sharma, Syed Azim, R. Hymes, K. Chin, R. Sheppard, B. Perlman, J. Sappenfield, E. Hauck, M. Hoeft, Mark Giska, Yatish S. Ranganath, T. Tedore, Stephen Choi, Jinlei Li, M. K. Kwofie, A. Nader, R. Sanders, Brian F S Allen, K. Vlassakov, S. Kates, L. Fleisher, James Dattilo, A. Tierney, A. Stephens-Shields, S. Ellenberg   +43 more
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Spinal anesthesia in awake surgical procedures of the lumbar spine: a systematic review and meta-analysis of 3709 patients.

Neurosurgical Focus, 2021
OBJECTIVE Awake surgery has previously been found to improve patient outcomes postoperatively in a variety of procedures. Recently, multiple groups have investigated the utility of this modality for use in spine surgery.
Roberto J. Perez-Roman, Vaidya Govindarajan, J. Bryant, Michael Y. Wang   +3 more
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Incidence and associated factors for hypotension after spinal anesthesia during cesarean section at Gandhi Memorial Hospital Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

PLoS ONE, 2020
Background Spinal anesthesia is a type of regional anesthesia that has been practicing for obstetric anesthesia since the beginning of the 20th century.
Tewoderos Shitemaw, Bedru Jemal, T. Mamo, L. Akalu   +3 more
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Control of Spinal Anesthesia-Induced Hypotension in Adults

Local and Regional Anesthesia, 2020
Spinal anesthesia-induced hypotension (SAIH) occurs frequently, particularly in the elderly and in patients undergoing caesarean section. SAIH is caused by arterial and venous vasodilatation resulting from the sympathetic block along with a paradoxical ...
Fabrice Ferré, Charlotte Martin, L. Bosch, M. Kurrek, O. Lairez, V. Minville   +5 more
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SPINAL ANESTHESIA

Survey of Anesthesiology, 1976
The clinical effects of equal hyperbaric doses of bupivacaine HCl and tetracaine HCl were studied and compared in 99 adult men undergoing spinal anesthesia for similar surgical procedures. The spinal anesthetic agents were used in random order in various dosages.
E A, Pflug, G M, Aasheim, H A, Beck
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Transient neurologic symptoms following spinal anesthesia with isobaric mepivacaine: A decade of experience at Toronto Western Hospital [PDF]

, 2018
Background: Transient neurologic symptoms (TNSs) can be distressing for patients and providers following uneventful spinal anesthesia. Spinal mepivacaine may be less commonly associated with TNS than lidocaine; however, reported rates of TNS with ...
Abdallah, Faraj W., Behboudi, Minou, Brull, Richard, MacFarlane, Alan, Sankar, Ashwin   +4 more
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Comparison of the effect of general and spinal anesthesia for elective cesarean section on maternal and fetal outcomes: a retrospective cohort study

Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, 2020
Background Anesthesia is needed to ensure both maternal and fetal safety during cesarean sections. This retrospective cohort study compared maternal and fetal outcomes between general and spinal anesthesia for cesarean section based on perioperative ...
Tae-yun Sung, Y. Jee, Hwang-Ju You, C. Cho   +3 more
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Perioperative and anesthetic deaths: toxicological and medico legal aspects [PDF]

, 2019
Background: Anesthesia has become safer during decades, though there is still a preventable mortality; the complexity of medical and surgical interventions, increasingly older and sicker patients, has created a host of new hazards in anesthesiology.
Argo A., Buscemi R., Karch S. B., Lanzarone A., Roccuzzo R., Zerbo S.   +5 more
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Higher occurrence of nausea and vomiting after total hip arthroplasty using general versus spinal anesthesia: an observational study. [PDF]

, 2016
BACKGROUND: Under the assumption that postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) may occur after total hip arthroplasty (THA) regardless of the anesthetic technique used, it is not clear whether general (GA) or spinal (SA) anesthesia has higher causal ...
A Borgeat, A Borgeat, A Harsten, A Kauste, A Kovac, AD Macdowell, B Fischer, Bernard Burnand, C Black, CC Apfel, CJ Lin, D Rusch, DE Ho, EA Stuart, F Clergue, FJ Singelyn, H Wulf, HS Smith, IUMSP, J Fortier, J Hahn, JB Cooper, JL Schafer, Julien Sansonnens, K Beyer, K Imai, KV Sanborn, LL Leape, M Coory, M McKee, M Stadler, MA Hernán, MR Brinker, P Diemunsch, P Taffe, Patrick Taffé, PC Austin, PC Austin, PR Rosenbaum, RH Dehejia, RL Johnson, S Fasting, S Greenland, TJ Gan, TJ Gan, TM DiIorio, V Pittet   +46 more
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