Does epidural anesthesia and analgesia improve postoperative outcomes in surgical patients?
Epidural anesthesia and analgesia may improve postoperative outcomes and attenuate physiologic responses to surgery.
Epidural anesthesia/analgesia has been demonstrated to improve postoperative outcome and attenuate the physiologic response to surgery.
Moraca et al. (2003) studied this question.
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