The 30-day complication rates for high risk patients were reduced from 15.28 percent with general anesthesia to 11.63 percent with spinal, according to the study.
The study took place from 2005 to 2010 and looked at 14,052 TKA procedures. Of those procedures, 57.1 percent were performed under general anesthesia and 42.9 percent under spinal. Spinal anesthesia also brought shorter surgery times and hospital stays.
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