Effect of Regional Versus General Anesthesia on Thirty-day Outcomes Following Carotid Endarterectomy: a Matched-pairs Cohort Study.

Effect of Regional Versus General Anesthesia on Thirty-day Outcomes Following Carotid Endarterectomy: a Matched-pairs Cohort Study.

The goal of this observational study is to assess the effect of regional versus general anesthesia on carotid endarterectomy thirty-day outcomes. The main questions it aims to answer are:

• Is regional anesthesia associated with lower incidence of major morbidity and mortality?
• Is regional anesthesia associated with lower incidences of secondary adverse events?

Participants will be sampled from the 2015-2019 American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program

Inclusion Criteria:

• Elective, non-emergent cases
• Regional anesthesia
• General anesthesia

Exclusion Criteria:

• Concurrency in procedures
• Acute kidney injury (preoperative)
• End-stage renal disease (preoperative)
• Metastatic disease (preoperative)
• Wound infection (preoperative)
• Sepsis (preoperative)
• ASA 5