Table 2.
Patient demographics and spinal anesthesia utilization.
| Characteristic | Procedure types |
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|---|---|---|---|
| THA | TKA | UKA | |
| No. | 66 | 35 | 180 |
| Age of patient, y | |||
| 19-49 | 14 | 2 | 13 |
| 50-64 | 34 | 20 | 76 |
| ≥65 | 18 | 13 | 91 |
| Sex of patient | |||
| Male | 23 | 17 | 82 |
| Female | 43 | 18 | 98 |
| Spinal anesthesia | |||
| Bupivacaine 0.5% | 4 | 0 | 3 |
| Bupivacaine 0.75% in dextrose 8.25% | 2 | 1 | 7 |
| Mepivacaine injection 1.5% | 0 | 22 | 146 |
| Ropivacaine injection 0.2% | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Ropivacaine injection 0.5% | 59 | 10 | 19 |
THA, total hip arthroplasty; TKA, total knee arthroplasty; UKA, unicondylar knee arthroplasty.