After recording results from over 3,000 total knee or hip replacement surgery patients, researchers found those who received general anesthesia were more likely to acquire surgical site infections than those who received epidural/spinal anesthesia. The study recorded patients who acquired SSIs within 30 days of the surgery and found those who received general anesthesia were 2.2 times more likely to acquire an SSI.
Read the Anesthesiology abstract on SSI with total hip or knee replacement surgery.
Read other coverage about anesthesiology:
-Building Strong Anesthesia Partnerships in Spine-Focused ASCs
-Dartmouth Anesthesiologists’ Surveillance System Decreases Post-Op ICU Visits
