Effect of forced-air warming system on cellular immune function during radical esophagus cancer resection / 中华麻醉学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate the effect of forced-air warming system on the cellular immune function during radical esophagus cancer resection. Methods Thirty-six ASA Ⅰ or Ⅱ patients of both sexes, aged ≤ 64 yr, with body mass index ＜ 30 kg/m2 , scheduled for elective radical esophagus cancer resection, were randomized to 2 groups ( n = 18 each) normal temperature care group (group C) and forced-air wanning group (group T) . Anesthesia was induced with midazolam, sufentanil, propofol and vecuronium. The patients were tracheal intubated and mechanically ventilated. The patients were not warmed intraoperatively in group C. In group T, the patients were prewarmed for 20 min at 43℃, using forced-air warming system before induction and then kept warm until the end of operation. The nasopharyngeal temperature was measured at 0, 30, 60, 120 and 180 min after anesthesia induction and at the end of operation (T1-6 ) to reflect the body temperature. Venous blood samples were taken at T1,6 for analysis of T-lymphocyte subsets (CD3+ , CD4+ , CD8+ , CD4+ /CD8+ ) and NK cells (by flow cytometry) and determination of the plasma concentrations of noradrenaline and adrenaline (by ELISA) . Results Compared with T1 , the body temperature was significantly decreased at T2-6 in group C, and the percentage of CD4+ cells and CD4+ /CD8+ ratio were significantly decreased and the percentage of CD8+ and plasma concentrations of noradrenaline and adrenaline increased at T6 in both groups ( P ＜ 0.05). Compared with group C, the body temperature was significantly increased at T2-6, plasma concentrations of noradrenaline and adrenaline were significantly increased at T, , while the change rate of concentrations was significantly decreased in group T ( P ＜ 0.05) . ConclusionThe efficiency of forced-air warming system in maintaining perioperative normothermia is good and it reduces the stress response, but it exerts no influence on the cellular immune function in patients undergoing radical esophagus cancer resection.