Does spinal anesthesia reduce 30-day mortality in patients undergoing elective joint replacement surgery?
Spinal anesthesia is associated with lower 30-day mortality and shorter hospital stays in patients undergoing elective joint replacement.
The results of this observational, propensity score-matched cohort study suggest a strong association between spinal anesthesia and lower 30-day mortality, as well as a shorter hospital length of stay, after elective joint replacement surgery.
Perlas et al. (Thu,) studied this question.