Either general or regional anesthesia can be used for spine surgery. Spine surgery involves acomplex procedure. The aim of a spine surgeon for doing a good surgery requires a clear and bloodless field especially in procedures done under microscope. As the working space is less a small epidural bleed can cause further complications in surgery. Another aspect is to take care of post operative ana...

BACKGROUND Volatile anesthetics cause Alzheimer's disease (AD)-like neuropathology in animals. We determined whether spine surgery under general anesthesia and anesthetic choice contributed to AD development. METHODS We searched the Clinical Data Repository of the University of Virginia for patients receiving spine surgery from January 1, 1992 to March 1, 2004. Patients with newly-diagnosed A...