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Regional or general anesthesia for fast-track hip and knee replacement - what is the evidence?
2015-12-15
Abstract excerpt
Regional anesthesia for knee and hip arthroplasty may have favorable outcome effects compared with general anesthesia by effectively blocking afferent input, providing initial postoperative analgesia, reducing endocrine metabolic responses, and providing sympathetic blockade with reduced bleeding and less risk of thromboembolic complications but with undesirable effects on lower limb motor and urinary bladder func...
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- Literature Corpus work
- bf00dc49-da84-5d7c-850c-3b6d04a7c6c7
- DOI
- 10.12688/f1000research.7100.1
