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Spinal Anesthesia or General Anesthesia for Hip Surgery in Older Adults
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Spinal Anesthesia or General Anesthesia for Hip Surgery in Older Adults

Mark D Neuman, Rui Feng, Jeffrey L Carson, Lakisha J Gaskins, Derek Dillane, Daniel I Sessler, Frederick Sieber, Jay Magaziner, Edward R Marcantonio, Samir Mehta, …
The New England journal of medicine, Vol.385(22), pp.2025-2035
11/25/2021
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa2113514
PMID: 34623788
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https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa2113514View
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Abstract

A randomized trial evaluating spinal as compared with general anesthesia for hip-fracture surgery in adults 50 years of age or older did not show superiority of spinal anesthesia with respect to a composite of death or an inability to walk unassisted at 60 days. Postoperative delirium occurred in similar percentages of patients in the two groups.
Aging Geriatrics Neurology Neurosurgery Orthopedics Surgery Aging General Clinical Practice Hospitalist Neurosurgery General Orthopedics General Primary Care Surgery General

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