Neuraxial blockade for the prevention of postoperative mortality and major morbidity: an overview of Cochrane systematic reviews

Abstract

This is the protocol for a review and there is no abstract. The objectives are as follows:To summarize Cochrane reviews that assess the effects of neuraxial blockade on perioperative rates of death, chest infections, and myocardial infarction by integrating the evidence from all Cochrane systematic reviews that have compared neuraxial blockade with or without general anaesthesia versus general anaesthesia alone for different types of surgery on various populations. Our secondary objective is to summarize the evidence about adverse effects (an adverse event for which the causal relation between the intervention and the event is at least a reasonable possibility) of neuraxial blockade.