A study found that patients administered with regional anesthesia for hip fracture surgery are more likely to experience complications as compared to those that receive general anesthesia. Dr. Paul Whiting, an orthopaedic trauma fellow at Vanderbilt University Medical Center Nashville, and his team extracted data from National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP), USA database for records of about 7800 patients going through hip fracture surgery.
Details of their study are given below: 75% received general anesthesia, 23% spinal anesthesia, and 1.4% regional nerve blocks Spinal anesthesia highest total complication rate of 19.6% followed by general (17.9%) and regional nerve (12.6%). Spinal anesthesia greater odds for minor complications compared to general anesthesia. Between regional and general, higher odds for minor and total complications for regional Ratio of 1.43 for…
