Why We Changed Management of TAVI from General to Local Anesthesia

Abstract

To deal with an increasing number of TAVI procedures, we changed anesthetic management from general anesthesia to monitored anesthesia care：MAC. This change enabled the number of same time interval to increase, and more stable vitals are achieved during procedure. In recent years, there have been some reports indicating the superiority of MAC over general anesthesia. This could be explained by generalization of growing use of the procedure or by getting used to the technique. More importantly, MAC could become the standard anesthetic care of TAVI in the near future.