SPINAL OR GENERAL ANAESTHESIA FOR SURGERY OF THE FRACTURED HIP?A Prospective Study of Moratality in 578 Patients
1986
The mortality following surgical correction of upper femoral fractures was investigated in 578 patients, over the age of 50 yr, randomly allocated to receive spinal (bupivacaine) or general (enflurane or neurolept) anaesthesia. Thirty days after surgery the mortality was 6% after spinal and 8% after general anaesthesia (ns). Six months to 2 years after surgery the mortality was identical in the two groups. There were no differences with respect to ambulation and discharge. The estimated blood loss was smaller (P
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