A new study indicates that using less invasive spinal, epidural and local anesthesia care is better than general anesthesia for elective endovascular repair of infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysms, according to a news release.
The study, published in the Nov. 2011 issue of the Journal of Vascular Surgery, found that general anesthesia was associated with increased postoperative length of stay and increased pulmonary morbidity when compared with other anesthetic methods.
Data was collected from 2005-2008, using the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program database, which uses CPT codes. Two hundred and twenty-one American hospitals were included, and over 6,000 elective EVAR cases were performed.
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