title: Anaesthetic techniques for surgical correction of fractured neck of femur. A comparative study of ketamine and relaxant anaesthesia in elderly women.
abstract: Ketamine has been compared with 'relaxant' anaesthesia in operations for fractured neck of femur in elderly women. Ketamine was found to reduce early mortality principally by a reduction in thromboembolic complications, but at the expense of more unsatisfactory surgical results. It is suggested that the mortality after relaxant anaesthesia for these operations is unacceptable.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000768:Anesthesia, General / Q000401:mortality; D000771:Anesthesia, Intravenous / Q000401:mortality; D005260:Female; D005265:Femoral Neck Fractures / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007649:Ketamine; D009609:Nitrous Oxide; D010100:Oxygen; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000401:mortality; D013874:Thiopental; D013997:Time Factors
chemical_list: D007649:Ketamine; D013874:Thiopental; D009609:Nitrous Oxide; D010100:Oxygen