Using local rather than general anesthesia for inguinal hernia repair may significantly reduce compl...
Using local rather than general anesthesia for inguinal hernia repair may significantly reduce complications for frail Veterans
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United States: Elsevier Inc
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English
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United States: Elsevier Inc
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Frailty predisposes patients to poor postoperative outcomes. We evaluated whether using local rather than general anesthesia for hernia repair could mitigate effects of frailty.
We used the Risk Analysis Index (RAI) to identify 8,038 frail patients in the 1998–2018 Veterans Affairs Surgical Quality Improvement Program database who underwent elec...
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Using local rather than general anesthesia for inguinal hernia repair may significantly reduce complications for frail Veterans
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TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_8295403
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_8295403
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0002-9610
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1879-1883
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10.1016/j.amjsurg.2021.01.026
