Perioperative medicine & outcomes
Identification of the haemoglobin level associated with a lower risk of complications after total hip and knee arthroplasty
Authors' conclusion
Preoperative haemoglobin ≥14 g dl-1 is associated with a lower risk of postoperative complications in patients undergoing primary TKA and THA.
Study context
- Population
- Patients undergoing total hip arthroplasty (THA) and total knee arthroplasty (TKA) in 131 Spanish hospitals3,818 THA and 2281 TKA
- Participants
- 6,099 patients
- Comparison
- Preoperative anaemia vs no anaemia; preoperative Hb categories
- Anaemian = 539
- No anaemian = 5,560reference
- Primary endpoint
- Patients with in-hospital postoperative complications (European Perioperative Clinical Outcome definitions and specific surgical TKA and THA complications)
- Follow-up
- 30-day
Methodological details131 Spanish hospitals, multivariable logistic regression
- 131 Spanish hospitals
- Multivariable logistic regression
Primary result
As reported in the abstract
Overall complications
P < 0.001
Secondary outcomes
Moderate-to-severe complications · 30-day
P < 0.001
Original publication
Identification of the haemoglobin level associated with a lower risk of complications after total hip and knee arthroplasty. Acta Anaesthesiol Scand. Published 20 February 2023. doi:10.
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