Perioperative medicine & outcomes
Quality of Recovery after Spinal or General Anesthesia for Total Knee Arthroplasty: a retrospective study
Authors' conclusion
Spinal anesthesia was associated with better early postoperative quality of recovery at POD 3 after TKA compared to general anesthesia.
Study context
- Population
- Adults undergoing primary Total Knee Arthroplasty (TKA), Strasbourg University Hospital, France, March 2020–June 2023, prospectively followed with mQoR-15Fanalysed
- Participants
- 447 adults
- Exposure
- Spinal vs general anaesthesia for primary TKA
- Spinal anesthesia (SA)n = 178
- General anesthesia (GA)n = 269reference
- Outcome
- Difference in mean mQoR-15F score
- Follow-up
- POD 1, 3, 14, and 28
Methodological detailssingle-centre
- Single-centre
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Mean mQoR-15F score · POD 3
SA
122.6
mean
GA
115.9
mean
P < 0.01
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Secondary outcomes
mQoR-15F subscales · postoperative days (POD) 3
- SA associated with improved pain, physical comfort, autonomy and psychological dimensions
Operating room occupancy
- Shorter with SA
Hospital LOS and 28-day mortality
- No differences
Safety
PONV
- No difference
Original publication
Quality of Recovery after Spinal or General Anesthesia for Total Knee Arthroplasty: a retrospective study. Anaesth Crit Care Pain Med. Published 24 September 2026. doi:10.
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