Does general anesthesia improve outcomes compared to sedation in patients undergoing endovascular thrombectomy for acute ischemic stroke?
General anesthesia for endovascular thrombectomy improves recanalization but does not improve cerebral function and increases pulmonary infection risk compared to sedation.
General anesthesia enhances the efficacy of recanalization without no improvement in cerebral function, while concurrently increasing the susceptibility to pulmonary infection among patients undergoing endovascular thrombectomy for acute ischemic stroke.
Jin et al. (Tue,) studied this question.