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Neuraxial anesthesia decreases postoperative systemic infection risk compared with general anesthesia in knee arthroplasty.
Oct 2013
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Abstract
Surgical stress has been shown to result in immune disturbance. Neuraxial anesthesia (NA) has long been hypothesized to blunt undesired surgical insults and thus limit immune compromise and improve surgical outcomes. We hypothesized that NA would decrease postoperative infectious complications compared with general anesthesia (GA) among knee arthroplasty patients.