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. 2022 Mar 26;10(9):2721-2732.
doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v10.i9.2721.

Association between anesthesia technique and complications after hip surgery in the elderly population

Ling-Song Guo  1 , Li-Nan Wang  1 , Jian-Bing Xiao  2 , Min Zhong  2 , Gao-Feng Zhao  3
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Association between anesthesia technique and complications after hip surgery in the elderly population

Ling-Song Guo et al. World J Clin Cases. .

Abstract

Background: Spinal anesthesia is superior to general anesthesia for postoperative recovery in older patients (≥ 65 age). However, evidence for this is lacking.

Aim: To evaluate the effect of anesthesia on postoperative complications in older patients undergoing hip surgery.

Methods: This is a retrospective, propensity score-matched, cohort study. Patients ≥ 65-years-old who underwent hip surgery at the Traditional Chinese Medicine of Guangdong Provincial Hospital in China from October 2016 to June 2020 were included. The operative methods were femoral fracture's internal fixation and hip replacement. The orthopedic doctors in different hospitals of our group have varied requirements for patients' out-of-bed time after surgery. Therefore, spinal anesthesia or general anesthesia was selected according to the requirements of the orthopedic doctors. The primary outcome of this study was complications during the hospitalization of the postoperative patient. The length of hospital stay, postoperative blood transfusion, routine blood analysis, renal function, coagulation function, and inflammatory correlations were secondary outcomes. Propensity score matching (PSM) was performed utilizing logistic regression.

Results: Among the 864 patients identified from the electronic medical record data database, we screened out those with incomplete medical record data. After PSM of the baseline values of the two groups of patients, data of 309 patients (206 patients in spinal anesthesia group and 103 patients in general anesthesia) were utilized in this study. 67/309 patients had complications, including postoperative limb dysfunction, pulmonary infection, delirium, lower extremity venous thrombosis, and shock. The incidence of complications was not related to anesthesia methods (P > 0.05), but the levels of D-Dimer (P = 0.017), fibrinogen (P = 0.005), and high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hsCRP) (P = 0.002) in the spinal anesthesia group were significantly higher than those in the general anesthesia group.

Conclusion: Anesthesia technology is not a risk factor for postoperative complications of hip surgery. The levels of D-Dimer and hsCRP were higher in the spinal anesthesia group.

Keywords: Complications; General anesthesia; Hip surgery; Older population; Spinal anesthesia.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict-of-interest statement: All the Authors have no conflict of interest related to the manuscript.

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