Improved costs and outcomes with conscious sedation vs general anesthesia in TAVR patients: Time to wake up?

BACKGROUND:Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) has become a commonplace procedure for the treatment of aortic stenosis in higher risk surgical patients. With the high cost and steadily increasing number of patients receiving TAVR, emphasis has been placed on optimizing outcomes as well as...

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Main Authors: William Toppen, Daniel Johansen, Sohail Sareh, Josue Fernandez, Nancy Satou, Komal D Patel, Murray Kwon, William Suh, Olcay Aksoy, Richard J Shemin, Peyman Benharash
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5381861?pdf=render