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Arteriovenous fistula (AVF) formation is the most common vascular access procedure for patients requiring haemodialysis. However, it is associated with high failure rates, influenced by vessel diameter and arterial inflow. Mode of anaesthesia may affect these factors, and subsequently AVF maturation rates.

To perform a systematic review and meta-analysis to assess the effect of anaesthesia type for autologous primary radiocephalic or brachiocephalic AVF creation on subsequent fistula failure rates.

The online databases of Medline, EMBASE, CINAHL, The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, ClinicalTrials.gov, and Google Scholar as well as vascular and anaesthesiology conference abstracts were searched on August 1, 2016. Randomised control trials (RCTs) that reported the effect of anaesthesia type on subsequent failure rates during autologous AVF creation were …