Retrospective data collection. The aim of this study is to compare general anesthesia and nerve block anesthesia with respect to the postoperative complications in patients undergoing diabetic leg amputation and having bleeding tendency.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
300
Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine
Seoul, South Korea
Occurrence of major complication
Major complications included pneumonia (followed the definition of European Perioperative Clinical Outcome), myocardial infarction (followed the definition of World Health Organization), stroke (A central neurologic deficit persisting postoperatively for \> 24 h), venous thromboembolism (confirmed by image study), delirium (confirmed by psychiatrist), acute kidney injury (based on Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes Criteria), new requirement for dialysis, surgical site infection, Return to the OP room.
Time frame: Within 1 month after the surgery
Occurrence of mortality
Mortality refers all deaths.
Time frame: Within 1 month after the surgery
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