Effects of General Versus Regional Anaesthesia on Surgical Outcomes and Early Postoperative Sequelae in Minimally Invasive Surgery for Urinary Calculi: A Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.
Regional anesthesia may reduce post-operative pain and speed recovery compared to general anesthesia for kidney stone removal surgery.
To systematically compare general anaesthesia (GA) and regional anaesthesia in patient undergoing minimally invasive surgery for urinary calculi, focusing on operative outcomes (e.g., operative time, length of hospital stay, stone-free rate [SFR]) and early postoperative outcomes (e.g., pain measured by the visual analog scale [VAS] and complication rate), and to provide evidence to guide anaesthetic selection. PubMed, Embase, and the Cochrane Library were searched from database inception to December 2025 for randomized controlled trials (RCTs) comparing GA with regional anaesthesia in minimally invasive urinary stone procedures.
What the study was
- Study design
- Randomized Controlled Trial
- Population
- Adult patients
- Sample size
- 525
- Category
- Other
- Maturity
- Potentially Practice-Changing
- Journal
- Archivos espanoles de urologia
Why it surfaced
Score 8/10: Randomized Controlled Trial, mixed model, Potentially Practice-Changing; flag=PROMISING_PRELIMINARY
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