Clinical Research on Prevention and Treatment of Respiratory Tract Complications With Acupoint Application After Operation Under General Anesthesia

There are various respiratory tract complications in patients undergoing general anesthesia, with postoperative sore throat (POST) being the most commonly seen. Although measures have been taken to prevent and treat POST in clinical practice, the control of POST is still not satisfactory. In this study, 880 ASA patients with grade I to II general anesthesia were randomly assigned into control group and experimental group. After patients entered into the operating room, the plasters were applied to the designated points (Tianzhu, Lianquan, Dazhui, etc), and the clinical efficacy of acupoint application in prevention and treatment of respiratory tract complications after general anesthesia was observed. The results showed that patients starting using acupoint application before operation could significantly reduce the incidence of postoperative respiratory tract complications, and the effects lasted for up to 24 hours. In this study, acupoint application was used, providing a simple, safe, efficient, and durable approach to prevent and treat respiratory tract complications after operation under general anesthesia. Address correspondence and reprint requests to Si-Lan Liu, PhD, Anesthesia Surgery Department, The First Affiliated Hospital of Suzhou University, 899 Pinghai Road, Gusu District, Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province 215006, China; E-mail: szliusl@126.com; Fang-Qin Jiang, Anesthesia Surgery Department, The First Affiliated Hospital of Suzhou University, 899 Pinghai Road, Gusu District, Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province 215006, China; E-mail: jiangfangqing@126.com Received 9 June, 2018 Accepted 30 July, 2018 X-HL and X-MZ equally contributed to this work and should be considered as co-first authors. S-LL and F-QJ authors contributed equally to this work and should be considered co-corresponding authors. The authors acknowledge funding from the National Natural Science Fund (81471136) and Jiangsu Provincial Medial Youth Talent (QNRC2016740). This study was financially supported by the program of Further Accelerating the Development of Chinese Medicine Three-Year Action Plan of Shanghai (2014–2016) (no. ZY3-RCPY-3-1013). The authors report no conflicts of interest. © 2018 by Mutaz B. Habal, MD.

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