Why the study?
Does general anesthesia with volatile anesthetics reduce mortality and complications in patients undergoing surgery compared to total IV anesthesia?
Population
Patients undergoing cardiac and noncardiac surgery
Comparison
General anesthesia with volatile anesthetics vs Total IV anesthesia
Design
Review
Authors
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Hypothesis-generating for volatile anesthetics in cardiac surgery; does not support practice change without randomized confirmation.
Does general anesthesia with volatile anesthetics reduce mortality and complications in patients undergoing surgery compared to total IV anesthesia?
Volatile anesthetics are associated with reduced mortality and pulmonary complications compared to total IV anesthesia in cardiac surgery, but not in noncardiac surgery.
Uhlig et al. (2016) studied this question.
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