Thirty-Day Complication Rates After Inguinal Hernia Surgery

Open repair under general anesthesia had slightly higher complication rates than other approaches.

Because inguinal hernia surgery is so common, primary care clinicians should keep abreast of pros and cons of the various operative approaches. In this retrospective study, researchers used a U.S. Veterans Affairs quality improvement database to compare complication rates for open repair under general anesthesia, open repair under local anesthesia, and laparoscopic repair (which requires general anesthesia). The study included 107,000 patients (nearly all men) who underwent first unilateral repairs.

In analyses adjusted for numerous clinical characteristics, plus additional “sensitivity analyses” to further address potential confounding, findings were as follows:

In a comparison between laparoscopic repair and open repair under general anesth…

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Allan S. Brett, MD

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Allan S. Brett, MD

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Thirty-Day Complication Rates After Inguinal Hernia Surgery

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