Association of Increasing Use of Spinal Anesthesia in Hip Fracture Repair With Treating an Aging Patient Population

JAMA Surg. 2020 Feb 1;155(2):167-168. doi: 10.1001/jamasurg.2019.4471.

Abstract

This study assesses the use of spinal anesthesia as the primary anesthetic strategy for operative repair of hip fracture using the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program database.

MeSH terms

  • Age Factors
  • Aged
  • Aged, 80 and over
  • Anesthesia, General / statistics & numerical data
  • Anesthesia, General / trends
  • Anesthesia, Spinal / statistics & numerical data
  • Anesthesia, Spinal / trends*
  • Databases, Factual
  • Female
  • Hip Fractures / surgery*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Practice Patterns, Physicians' / statistics & numerical data
  • Practice Patterns, Physicians' / trends*