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2022 Jul 05


Braz J Anesthesiol

Regional analgesia and surgical site infections after colorectal surgery: a retrospective cohort analysis.

Authors

Bajracharya G R, Ali Sakr Esa W, Mao G, Leung S, Cohen B, Maheshwari K, Kessler HP, Gorgun E, Sessler DI, Turan A
Braz J Anesthesiol. 2022 Jul 05.
PMID: 35803369.

Abstract

The effect of regional analgesia on perioperative infectious complications remains unknown. We therefore tested the hypothesis that a composite of serious infections after colorectal surgery is less common in patients with regional analgesia than in those given Intravenous Patient-Controlled Analgesia (IV-PCA) with opiates.