Does regional anesthesia reduce inpatient mortality and pulmonary complications in adults undergoing hip fracture surgery compared to general anesthesia?
Regional anesthesia may improve inpatient survival and reduce pulmonary complications compared to general anesthesia in adults undergoing hip fracture surgery.
Regional anesthesia is associated with a lower odds of inpatient mortality and pulmonary complications among all hip fracture patients compared with general anesthesia; this finding may be driven by a trend toward improved outcomes with regional anesthesia among patients with intertrochanteric fractures.
Neuman et al. (2012) studied this question.