General anaesthesia
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Applied to the whole body as opposed to local anaesthesia. Will usual involve inhalation of a gas/vapour and/or intravenous drugs, although traditionally large amounts of the hypnotic alcohol, deliberately concussing the patient or inducing syncope might have had the same effect.
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![]() | Modern general anaesthesia has a good safety record. Risk is able to be well defined by ASA score and is highest at extremes of age and comorbidity.
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References
- ↑ Davidson AJ, Disma N, de Graaff JC et al. for GAS consortium. Neurodevelopmental outcome at 2 years of age after general anaesthesia and awake-regional anaesthesia in infancy (GAS): an international multicentre, randomised controlled trial. Lancet. 2016 Jan 16;387(10015):239-50. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(15)00608-X
- ↑ Hunt LP, Ben-Shlomo Y, Clark EM, Dieppe P, Judge A, MacGregor AJ, Tobias JH, Vernon K, Blom AW; National Joint Registry for England, Wales and Northern Ireland. 90-day mortality after 409,096 total hip replacements for osteoarthritis, from the National Joint Registry for England and Wales: a retrospective analysis.Lancet. 2013 Sep 28;382(9898):1097-104. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(13)61749-3
- ↑ Patel V1, Champaneria R, Dretzke J, Yeung J. Effect of regional versus general anaesthesia on postoperative delirium in elderly patients undergoing surgery for hip fracture: a systematic review. BMJ Open. 2018 Dec 4;8(12):e020757. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-020757