בשל "הגנת זכויות יוצרים", מובא להלן קישור למאמר בלבד. לקריאתו בטקסט מלא, אנא פנה/י לספרייה הרפואית הזמינה לך.

Over 150,000 carotid endarterectomy (CEA) procedures are performed each year.

Perioperative anesthetic management may be complex due to multiple patient and procedure-related risk factors.

The authorsaimed to determine whether the use of general anesthesia (GA), when compared with regional anesthesia (RA), would be associated with reduced perioperative morbidity and mortality in patients undergoing a CEA.

Retrospective analysis of the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP) database.

The authors evaluated patients undergoing a CEA at multiple university- and community-based settings.