Is regional anesthesia really better than general anesthesia?

Affiliations

¹ Director of Regional Anesthesia, St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, Associate Professor of Anesthesia, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York.

Editorial

Admir Hadzic. Anesth Analg. 2005 Dec.

. 2005 Dec;101(6):1631-1633.

doi: 10.1213/01.ANE.0000184292.54807.F3.

¹ Director of Regional Anesthesia, St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, Associate Professor of Anesthesia, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York.

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Comment in

General versus regional: why either/or?
Chamberlin KJ. Chamberlin KJ. Anesth Analg. 2006 Oct;103(4):1058-9; author reply 1059. doi: 10.1213/01.ane.0000239010.67934.55. Anesth Analg. 2006. PMID: 17000854 No abstract available.

A comparison of regional versus general anesthesia for ambulatory anesthesia: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.
Liu SS, Strodtbeck WM, Richman JM, Wu CL. Liu SS, et al. Anesth Analg. 2005 Dec;101(6):1634-1642. doi: 10.1213/01.ANE.0000180829.70036.4F. Anesth Analg. 2005. PMID: 16301234

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