Patients undergoing a primary total hip or knee arthroplasty
Subjects must be capable of providing informed consent
English or Spanish speaking
You may not be if
Patients with contraindications for spinal anesthesia such as:
Prior lumbar surgery with hardware insertion
Elevated intracranial pressure
Infection at the site of the procedure
Thrombocytopenia or coagulopathy
Severe mitral and aortic stenosis and left ventricular outflow obstruction
Severe spine pathology (spinal stenosis, spondylolisthesis, spondylosis) with radiculopathy and/or neurogenic claudication
Preexisting neurological disease
Patients with contraindications for general anesthesia such as:
Congestive heart failure
Severe aortic stenosis
Patient is unable/unwilling to consent
Current pregnancy or women planning on becoming pregnant in the next year, and women who think they might be pregnant, or women who become pregnant during the study period will be removed from the study.
Prisoners
Clareo Health | General vs Spinal in Total Joint Arthroplasty (TJA)
