Anaesthesia and intensive care
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Anaesth Intensive Care · Nov 1981
Randomized Controlled Trial Clinical TrialSpinal anaesthesia or general anaesthesia for emergency hip surgery in elderly patients.
One hundred and thirty-two elderly patients undergoing emergency hip surgery were randomly allocated to receive subarachnoid block (SAB) or general anaesthesia (GA). Using the 125. I fibrinogen uptake test, deep vein thrombosis was found to occur in 17 of 37 patients in the SAB group and 30 of 39 patients in the GA group (P 0.05). ⋯ At 24 hours postoperatively the fall in PaO2 was similar in both groups and recovered only slowly during the first week. Twelve patients died, three in the SAB group and nine in the GA group. This difference in mortality was not statistically significant.