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MARCH 20, 2018

Pulmonary Complications Not Increased by Combined Regional–General Anesthesia

Washington—Postoperative pulmonary complications may be a leading cause of poor surgical outcomes, but combined regional and general anesthesia is not necessarily to blame. After adjusting for confounders, subanalysis of a recent prospective observational study showed that combined regional and general anesthesia was not associated with having at least one postoperative pulmonary complication.

According to Kristina Coger, MD, anesthesiology resident at the University of Colorado School of