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ArticleOncology letters2018

Combined acupuncture and general anesthesia on immune and cognitive function in elderly patients following subtotal gastrectomy for gastric cancer.

Ningke Wang, Yangwen Ou, Wenxiang Qing

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Article in Oncology letters, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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10citing papers in PubMed, 5 pooled it
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10 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Ningke WangDepartment of Anesthesiology, The Third Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410013, P.R. China.
Yangwen OuDepartment of Anesthesiology, The Third Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410013, P.R. China.
Wenxiang QingDepartment of Anesthesiology, The Third Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410013, P.R. China.
Central South University · CNThird Xiangya Hospital · CN

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study investigated the effects of acupuncture combined with general anesthesia on postoperative immune and cognitive functions in elderly patients undergoing subtotal gastrectomy. We recruited 96 elderly patients who received anesthesia for subtotal gastrectomy and randomly divided them into control (n=48) and experimental (n=48) groups. The control group received general anesthesia and the experimental group received combined acupuncture and general anesthesia. We measured hemodynamic immediately before and after anesthesia induction, and immune observations before and after surgery. We found no significant differences in mean heart rate (HR), mean oxygen saturation (SpO2), and partial pressure of end-tidal carbon dioxide (PETCO2) in the perioperative period between the two groups. Mean arterial pressure (MAP) was lower in the experimental group than that in the control group (P<0.05). The levels of cluster of differentiation 3 (CD3

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cognitive functionscombined acupuncture and drug general anesthesiaelderly patientsimmune functionssubtotal gastrectomy

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PMID29391879
PMCPMC5769376
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