Regional versus General Anesthesia for Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy: A Meta-Analysis

Henglong Hu, Baolong Qin, Deng He, Yuchao Lu, Zhenyu Zhao, Jiaqiao Zhang, Yufeng Wang and Shaogang Wang

PLOS ONE, 2015, vol. 10, issue 5, 1-15

Abstract: Objective: To compare the effectiveness and safety of regional anesthesia (RA) and general anesthesia (GA) for percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PNL). Patients and Methods: PubMed, EMBASE, The Cochrane Library, and the Web of Knowledge databases were systematically searched to identify relevant studies. After literature screening and data extraction, a meta-analysis was performed using the RevMan 5.3 software. Results: Eight randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and six non-randomized controlled trials (nRCTs) involving 2270 patients were included. Patients receiving RA were associated with shorter operative time (−6.22 min; 95%CI, −9.70 to −2.75; p = 0.0005), lower visual analgesic score on the first and third postoperative day (WMD, −2.62; 95%CI, −3.04 to −2.19; p

Date: 2015
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