Which Anesthesia Should Be Used for Total Knee
Arthroplasty (TKA), General or Neuraxial?
Volume 1 - Issue 4
Ahmed A Khalifa FRCS*
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- Department of orthopaedic and traumatology, Qena faculty of medicine and its university hospital, Egypt
*Corresponding author:
Ahmed A Khalifa, Assistant lecturer and specialist of orthopaedic and traumatology, Qena faculty of medicine
and its university hospital, Egypt
Received: May 23, 2019; Published:June 03, 2019
DOI: 10.32474/GJAPM.2018.01.000116
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Abstract
Total knee arthroplasty (TKA) considered to be one of the most common orthopedic surgical procedures performed worldwide.
Anesthesia techniques had been developed as part of the development of the TKA surgical techniques over the past decades.
Regional anesthesia started to take the upper hand as the dominant form of anesthesia from the general anesthesia which was
considered as the standard practice in the past. It had been shown in many studies the probability of reducing intra-operative blood
loss, length of hospital stays, patient outcomes and mortality rates when regional anesthesia was used instead of general anesthesia.
Keywords: TKA; General; Neuraxial; Anesthesia
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