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Application of combined anesthesia with spontaneous breathing in the surgery of intertrochanteric fracture of femur in elderly patients

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Lu Zou

Department of Anesthesiology, Changzhou Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Changzhou, China

ORCID: 0000-0002-2242-7959

Xiao-yan Pan

Department of Anesthesiology, Changzhou Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Changzhou, China

ORCID: 0000-0003-0320-8969

Xu-dong Xu

Department of Anesthesiology, Changzhou Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Changzhou, China

ORCID: 0000-0002-0194-8296

Yuan-yuan Qu

Department of Anesthesiology, Changzhou Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Changzhou, China

ORCID: 0000-0001-7221-8277

Abstract

Objectives: This study aims to investigate the feasibility and safety of combined anesthesia with spontaneous breathing in the operation of intertrochanteric fracture of femur in the elderly.

Patients and methods: Between January 2020 and January 2023, a total of 141 elderly patients (45 males, 96 females; mean age: 72.5±6.8 years; range, 65 to 87 years) who underwent proximal femoral nail anti-rotation (PFNA) surgery for intertrochanteric fracture of femur were included in this single-blind, prospective, randomized-controlled study. The patients were randomly divided into three groups. Group A (experimental group) was a general anesthesia with laryngeal mask airway (LMA) group preserving spontaneous breathing, Group B (control group 1) was a general anesthesia with LMA group for mechanical ventilation, and Group C (control group 2) was a tracheal intubation anesthesia group for mechanical ventilation. The differences of related indexes among the three groups were compared.

Results: The mean onset time of anesthesia (6.23±1.45 vs. 12.78±2.78 vs. 13.73±2.43 min), postoperative recovery time of consciousness (8.13±0.83 vs. 11.34±0.89 vs. 12.45±0.86 min), and postoperative complete awakening time (10.45±2.34 vs. 18.87±2.56 vs. 19.62±2.93 min) were significantly shorter in Group A than in Groups B and C (p<0.05). The duration of analgesic effect was longer in Group A than in Groups B and C (p<0.05). After anesthesia, the Ramsay Sedation Scale and Visual Analog Scale (VAS) scores were significantly lower in Group A than the other groups (p<0.05). The mean Mini-Mental State Examination (MMS) scores were significantly higher in Group A than in Groups B and C (p<0.05). Hemodynamic parameters showed that blood pressure, heart rate, cardiac output, and cardiac index (CI) levels were significantly higher in Group A than the other groups (p<0.05).

Conclusion: Our study results indicate that combined anesthesia preserving spontaneous breathing is safe and feasible in the operation of intertrochanteric fracture of femur in the elderly, with faster anesthesia recovery than the mechanical ventilation group.

Declarations

Ethics Committee Approval

The study protocol was approved by the Changzhou Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine Ethics Committee (date: 11.05.2019, no: 2019-LL-008(L)). The study was conducted in accordance with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki.

Informed Consent

A written informed consent was obtained from each patient.

Author Contributions

Conceived of the study and its design: Z.L., P.X.Y.; Participated in its coordination and acquisition of data: X.X.D.; Helped to analyze the data: Q.Y.Y. All authors participated in drafting the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

Conflict of Interest

The authors declared no conflicts of interest with respect to the authorship and/or publication of this article.

Financial Disclosure

The authors received no financial support for the research and/or authorship of this article.

Data Sharing Statement

The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.

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