Comparison of Complications between Gender during Spinal Anesthesia
Comparison of Complications between Gender during Spinal Anesthesia is a scholarly work, published in 2018 in ''Journal of Surgery and Operative Care''. The main subjects of the publication include medicine, spinal anesthesia, intervertebral disc, and anaesthesia. In this cohort study, 1200 patients including 600 men and 600 women underwent spinal anesthesia with 5% lidocaine injected into L3-4 or L4-5interspace with the patient in either sitting or lateral position.The subjects include patients scheduled for lower abdominal site and orthopedic surgeries (leg to the bottom), analysis was done at 6, 12, 18, and 24 hours after recovery, and some variables in the second and third days were also analyed.To statistically analyze the side effects of spinal anesthesia, chi-square test was used.Result: Result showed that nausea, vomiting, headache, urinary retention (in recovery unit) and back pain (18hours) were statistically significantly different (P<0.05).There was no significant difference between the incidence of other complications and gender.