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Table 3 Utilization rates of spinal anesthesia between 2011 and 2018

From: Spinal anesthesia is a grossly underutilized gold standard in primary total joint arthroplasty: propensity-matched analysis of a national surgical quality database

Procedure

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

P Value

THA

36.7%

37.2%

35.2%

35.1%

36.5%

37.5%

36.2%

38.1%

< 0.001

TKA

40.5%

37.0%

35.5%

37.9%

39.6%

40.1%

40.2%

40.3%

< 0.001

  1. THA total hip arthroplasty, TKA total knee arthroplasty