Published results showed use of spinal anesthesia during hip fracture surgery led to more pain in the first 24 hours and use of more prescription analgesia at 60 days compared with general anesthesia.
“In our study, patients who got spinal anesthesia did get fewer opioids in the operating room, but they ended up having more pain and more prescription pain medication use after surgery,” Mark D. Neuman, MD, MSc, lead author of the study and associate professor of anesthesiology and past chair of the Penn Medicine Opioid Task Force, said in a press release from the University of