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In search of the 'good anaesthetic' for hip fracture repair : difference, uncertainty and ideology in an age of evidence-based medicine

2019-01-01

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Hip fracture is a common life-threatening injury amongst frail elderly people and early surgical fixation under anaesthesia is advocated. It has long been suspected that mode of anaesthesia (general anaesthesia, induced unconsciousness; regional anaesthesia, interruption of sensation using local anaesthetic) influences outcome, however ‘conventional’ studies have consistently failed to demonstrate if this is the c...

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Literature Corpus work: 173878d3-0270-5ff6-803f-ea510d85f761
DOI: 10.17635/lancaster/thesis/747

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