Anesthesia

PHOENIX — A speaker at the Orthopaedic Research Society Annual Meeting said he and his colleagues recommend that only after trying all other conservative approaches to treat adhesive capsulitis of the shoulder should manipulation under anesthesia be performed, due to the poor economic profile of the procedure.

Outcomes after transcatheter aortic valve replacement with moderate sedation vs. general anesthesia.

According to recently published results, manipulation under anesthesia with lysis of adhesions is an effective procedure for patients with arthrofibrosis after sulcus-deepening trochleoplasty.

Protocol-based general anesthesia was linked to less disability at 3 months compared with procedural sedation among patients with acute ischemic stroke in the anterior circulation who underwent thrombectomy, according to a systematic review and meta-analysis published in JAMA.