Perioperative medicine & outcomes
Impact of spinal versus general anaesthesia on perioperative obstructive sleep apnoea severity in patients undergoing hip arthroplasty: a post hoc analysis of two randomised controlled trials
Authors' conclusion
Use of spinal anaesthesia compared with general anaesthesia was not associated with a reduction in postoperative sleep apnoea severity, which was worse on the third postoperative night.
Study context
- Population
- Patients undergoing total hip arthroplasty2 RCTs pooled
- Participants
- 96 patients
- Comparison
- Spinal vs general anaesthesia
- Primary endpoint
- Supine apnoea-hypopnea index on the first postoperative night and its evolution up to the third postoperative night
- Follow-up
- First postoperative night
Methodological detailspooled data, no preliminary power analysis
- Pooled data
- No preliminary power analysis
Primary result
As reported in the abstract
Supine apnoea-hypopnoea index
P = 0.82
Secondary outcomes
Supine apnoea-hypopnoea index · third postoperative night
P = 0.91
Secondary outcomes incl. oxygen desaturation index (first and third postoperative nights)
- Similar in the two groups
Original publication
Impact of spinal versus general anaesthesia on perioperative obstructive sleep apnoea severity in patients undergoing hip arthroplasty: a post hoc analysis of two randomised controlled trials. Br J Anaesth. Published 10 June 2024. doi:10.
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