Assessment of the anesthesia effect of acupuncture, supported by low dose of anesthetic drug in goitre operation
- Author:
Nguyen Ba Quang
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
anesthesia, goitre operation
- MeSH:
acupuncture;
Anesthesia;
surgery
- From:Pharmaceutical Journal
2004;0(13):14-19
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
This study compared goitre surgery in 100 patients with anesthesia acupuncture with 55 patients with cervical plexus superficial anesthesia. The studied patients were between 30-50 year old with goitres classified from II to IV degree, in which III degree goitres were prevalent (67%). The acupuncture points GI4, PC6, TR17 and ST12 were applied. 92% of cases were assessed to attain the A level of anesthesia, the remains were the B level. The anesthesia acupuncture exhibited more effectively in small goitres than in big ones (the anesthesia A level was 100% of cases of II degree goitre operation, whereas was only 66.7% in anesthesia acupunture for IV degree goitre operation), independing on the nature of goitres. The anesthesia acupuncture induced an anesthetic outcome better than cervical plexus superficial anesthesia
