Postoperative pulmonary complications with adjuvant regional anesthesia versus general anesthesia alone: a sub-analysis of the Perioperative Research Network study

Abstract Background Adjuvant regional anesthesia is often selected for patients or procedures with high risk of pulmonary complications after general anesthesia. The benefit of adjuvant regional anesthesia to reduce postoperative pulmonary complications remains uncertain. In a prospective observatio...

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Main Authors: Karsten Bartels, Gyorgy Frendl, Juraj Sprung, Toby N. Weingarten, Balachundhar Subramaniam, Ricardo Martinez Ruiz, Jae-Woo Lee, William G. Henderson, Angela Moss, Alissa Sodickson, Jadelis Giquel, Marcos Francisco Vidal Melo, Ana Fernandez-Bustamante, for the Perioperative Research Network (PRN) investigators
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2022-05-01
Series:BMC Anesthesiology
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12871-022-01679-5