Background
short-term functional impairment
COMPLICATIONS
PAMW may cause short-term functional impairment [In a recent propensity matched analysis comparing SA to GA in more than 70,000 patients undergoing THA, Ferreira et al. found a significant reduced operative time in the SA group, as well as also found significantly less 30-day complications, readmissions, and reoperations. [In this study, it was hypothesized that SA attenuates the neuro-endocrine stress response and the magnitude of PAMW to a greater extent than GA. This exploratory prospective randomized controlled trial was performed in a well-defined cohort of patients undergoing bilateral THA under either SA or GA.