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[Clinical application of combined acupuncture-drug anesthesia in cerebral functional area operation]
Objective:
To reach for higher tumor resection rate and low incidence of disability by operation with combined acupuncture-drug anesthesia in cerebral functional area.
Methods:
According to the different operation ways, two groups of combination of body-acupuncture and ear-acupuncture were adopted.
Results:
Satisfactory effect was obtained in all the 80 patients, including 20 cases in language center and 60 in sensory and motor center. The anesthesia grade 1 rate was 100%. After operation, no aggravation in dysphasia or dysfunction was found, 5 cases showed aggravation on myasthenia and dysesthesia, but all recovered within 2-4 weeks.
Conclusion:
Operation with combined acupuncture-drug anesthesia might result high tumor resection rate and low incidence of disability, therefore, this method of anesthesia could be regarded as one of the routine anesthesia methods.