August 31, 2023 | Today’s News
Today's Top Story Study: General Anesthesia Associated with Higher Complication Rates after TJA The Journal of the AAOS® published a propensity-matched study that compared the major postoperative complications and pneumonia between spinal anesthesia (SA) versus general anesthesia (GA) in patients undergoing total joint arthroplasty (TJA). Overall, 217,267 patients were identified for both the GA and SA groups. The rates of pneumonia for the GA and SA groups were 0.39 percent and 0.25 percent, respectively. Patients [...]