Anesthesia and analgesia
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Anesthesia and analgesia · Oct 2013
Comparative StudyNeuraxial Anesthesia Decreases Postoperative Systemic Infection Risk Compared with General Anesthesia in Knee Arthroplasty.
This large, retrospective observational study found that neuraxial anaesthesia was associated with a significantly lower risk of both pneumonia (OR 0.51) and composite systemic infection (OR 0.77) than general anaesthesia in patients undergoing knee arthroplasty.
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