Spinal versus general anaesthesia for the elderly hip fractured patient: It is probably time to move on!

Affiliations

¹ Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Hôpital Nord, 42055 Saint Etienne Cedex 2, and Sainbiose INSERM Unit 1059, Jean Monnet University, Saint-Etienne, France.
² Department of Anaesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Polyclinique Saint Jean, 06800 Cagnes sur Mer, France; Young Committee of the French Society of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine (Comité Jeunes de la SFAR), Paris, France.
³ Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Lapeyronie University Hospital, 34295 Montpellier Cedex 5, France and Inserm Unit 1298 Montpellier NeuroSciences Institute, Montpellier University, 34295 Montpellier Cedex 5, France.
⁴ Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Hôpital Nord, 42055 Saint Etienne Cedex 2, and Sainbiose INSERM Unit 1059, Jean Monnet University, Saint-Etienne, France. Electronic address: serge.molliex@chu-st-etienne.fr.

Editorial

Julien Lanoiselée et al. Anaesth Crit Care Pain Med. 2022 Apr.

. 2022 Apr;41(2):101045.

doi: 10.1016/j.accpm.2022.101045. Epub 2022 Feb 19.

¹ Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Hôpital Nord, 42055 Saint Etienne Cedex 2, and Sainbiose INSERM Unit 1059, Jean Monnet University, Saint-Etienne, France.
² Department of Anaesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Polyclinique Saint Jean, 06800 Cagnes sur Mer, France; Young Committee of the French Society of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine (Comité Jeunes de la SFAR), Paris, France.
³ Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Lapeyronie University Hospital, 34295 Montpellier Cedex 5, France and Inserm Unit 1298 Montpellier NeuroSciences Institute, Montpellier University, 34295 Montpellier Cedex 5, France.
⁴ Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Hôpital Nord, 42055 Saint Etienne Cedex 2, and Sainbiose INSERM Unit 1059, Jean Monnet University, Saint-Etienne, France. Electronic address: serge.molliex@chu-st-etienne.fr.

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Keywords: Hip fracture; Spinal anaesthesia, general anaesthesia.

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Spinal Anesthesia or General Anesthesia for Hip Surgery in Older Adults.
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