Patients who received epidural analgesia for open colectomy experienced lower rates of myocardial infarction, pulmonary complications, pneumonia and shorter hospital length of stay (LOS) than those who did not.
Kenneth Cummings, MD, an anesthesiologist at the Cleveland Clinic, in Ohio, presented the analysis of regional anesthetic techniques following surgery, that was conducted with a multidisciplinary team of collaborators.
Based on previous research that found epidural analgesia led to