Outcomes with General Anesthesia Compared to Conscious Sedation for Endovascular Treatment of Medium Vessel Occlusions: Results of an International Multicentric Study
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Outcomes with General Anesthesia Compared to Conscious Sedation for Endovascular Treatment of Medium Vessel Occlusions: Results of an International Multicentric Study
Abstract
Background: Optimal anesthetic strategy for the endovascular treatment of stroke is still under debate. Despite scarce data concerning anesthetic management for medium and distal vessel occlusions (MeVOs) some centers empirically support a general anesthesia (GA) strategy in these patients.
Methods: We conducted an international retrospective study of MeVO cases. A propensity score matching algorithm was used to mitigate potential differences across patients undergoing GA and conscious sedation (CS). Comparisons in clinical and safety outcomes were performed between the two study groups GA and CS. The favourable outcome was defined as a modified Rankin Scale (mRS) 0-2 at 90 days. Safety outcomes were 90-days mortality and symptomatic intracranial hemorrhage (sICH). Predictors of a favourable outcome and sICH were evaluated with backward logistic regression.
Results: After propensity score matching 668 patients were included in the CS and 264 patients in the GA group. In the matched cohort, either strategy CS or GA resulted in similar rates of good functional outcomes (50.1% vs. 48.4%), and successful recanalization (89.4% vs. 90.2%). The GA group had higher rates of 90-day mortality (22.6% vs. 16.5%, p < 0.041) and sICH (4.2% vs. 0.9%, p = 0.001) compared to the CS group. Backward logistic regression did not identify GA vs CS as a predictor of good functional outcome (OR for GA vs CS = 0.95 (0.67-1.35)), but GA remained a significant predictor of sICH (OR = 5.32, 95% CI 1.92-14.72).
Conclusion: Anaesthetic strategy in MeVOs does not influence favorable outcomes or final successful recanalization rates, however, GA may be associated with an increased risk of sICH and mortality.
Keywords: Anesthesia; MeVO; Outcomes research; Reperfusion; Stroke; Thrombectomy.
© 2024. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany.
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