Regional Anesthesia and Postoperative Outcomes in Lung Resection Surgery, 9,208 Patients

A retrospective cohort study of 9,208 adult patients who underwent lung-resection surgery under general anesthesia at a large teaching hospital in China. The dataset was created to investigate associations between regional anesthesia and postoperative pulmonary complications within 7 days. The study was authored by Jing-Jing Sun and last updated on 2026-05-26.

Use Cases

• Analyze the association between regional anesthesia and postoperative pulmonary complications based on the primary outcome measure.
• Compare outcomes between general anesthesia alone and combined techniques based on the GA and GA+RA patient groups.
• Investigate subgroup-specific benefits, such as for patients with shorter surgical duration, based on the exploratory analyses mentioned.
• Study the impact of peripheral regional anesthesia on postoperative congestive heart failure risk based on the reported hazard ratios.

Strengths

• Includes 9,208 patient records from a single large hospital, providing a substantial sample size.
• Reports specific hazard ratios and confidence intervals for key outcomes, such as PPCs (HR 0.93) and congestive heart failure (HR 0.37).
• Uses a matched cohort design to compare GA alone versus GA combined with RA.

Limitations

• Row count and column-level documentation are absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data is from a single hospital in China, which may reflect geographic and institutional bias.
• The dataset is 1.3 MB, indicating a small scale which may limit the complexity of analyses.

Provenance

Source

figshare, authored by Jing-Jing Sun.

Collection Method

Hospital-based, retrospective cohort study.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-26 07:10:35; freshness should be verified.

Geography

A large comprehensive teaching hospital in China.