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Does acupuncture in combination with chemical anesthesia and neuromuscular relaxants provide successful anesthesia with less circulatory interference in patients undergoing cardiac surgery?
Does acupuncture in combination with chemical anesthesia and neuromuscular relaxants provide successful anesthesia with less circulatory interference in patients undergoing cardiac surgery?
Acupuncture combined with chemical anesthesia and neuromuscular relaxants is reported as a successful anesthetic technique for cardiac surgery with minimal circulatory interference.
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May facilitate lighter anesthesia with less hemodynamic interference in cardiac surgery; hypothesis-generating and should not change practice without RCTs.
This article reports the utilization of acupuncture in combination with chemical anesthesia and neuromuscular relaxant for patients with cardiac surgery, including valvular disease and by-pass. In 800 patients studied using this type of combination of anesthetic techniques, it was found that this procedure can be successful for cardiac surgery and that it allows light planes of anesthesia with less interference to circulatory regulation. There is a certain advantage of using acupuncture anesthesia when compared with chemical anesthesia, as the pharmacological agents are not used and hence post no metabolic load for the patients. From the 800 patients studied, it seems justifiable to recommend this anesthetic procedure for cardiac surgery.
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