Why the study?
Does regional anesthesia reduce perioperative morbidity and mortality compared to general anesthesia in surgical patients with COPD?
Population
5,288 surgical patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease from the National Surgical Quality…
Comparison
Regional anesthesia vs General anesthesia (propensity score-matched)
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
30 days
Authors
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May support regional anesthesia in COPD surgery; hypothesis-generating and requires RCTs before practice change.
Does regional anesthesia reduce perioperative morbidity and mortality compared to general anesthesia in surgical patients with COPD?
In surgical patients with COPD, regional anesthesia is associated with a lower incidence of composite morbidity and pulmonary complications compared to general anesthesia.
Hausman et al. (2014) studied this question.
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