Effects of acupuncture in Siguan points on man-machine counteraction in respiratory failure patients during mechanical ventilation / 中国中西医结合杂志

ABSTRACT

<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To investigate the value of applying acupuncture in patients with respiratory failure Sixty (RF) during mechanical ventilation (MV) when there happened man-machine counteraction.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>RF patients with nonsynchronous spontaneous breath (SB) during mechanical ventilation were divided into two groups randomly, 30 in each group. The control group treated with intravenous midazolam injection, and the treated group with acupuncture in Siguan points combined intravenous midazolam injection to maintain synchronized SB and MV, and to calm patients. The dose of midazolam used, the sedative effect as well as the complications occurred at different time points in the two groups were observed and compared.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>Compared with the control group, advantages such as smaller dose of midazolam used, lighter in deepness of sedation, and less complications were observed in the treated group (all P < 0.05).</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>Acupuncture auxiliary Western medicine treatment has better effects than that of Western treatment alone in treating RF patients with man-machine counteraction during mechanical ventilation.</p>