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I'm Team Spinal, but I'd MuchRather Get Up and About Straight After Than Knee Surgery
The evidence supporting a safer procedure under spinal is robust enough in hips that I have no acopoys there. And again, the one thing that's confused me about hips is so many variations in practice when it comes to anesthesia for hip surgery. Some surgeons are absolutely adamant that we're not allowed to put any blocks in and they can do everything with their own local infiltration. Other surgeons actually ask for a GA placer spinal. They definitely don't want the patient to be awake, they don't want to monitor down this easy care, but they want the benefit of having a spinal. This is... So, I'm team spinal for me.