Researchers analyzed the types of anesthesia used in 191,570 patients who had knee replacement surgeries, of which 76.2 percent of patients received general anesthesia, 10.9 percent received spinal or epidural anesthesia and 12.9 percent received a combination of neuraxial and general anesthesia. Researchers then studied the type of anesthesia used for those who suffered a fall in the hospital.
The study found that of patients who had general anesthesia, 1.62 percent fell, whereas of the patients who received neuraxial anesthesia only 1.3 percent suffered a fall and of the patients who were given a combination of the two, 1.5 percent fell.
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