Mastoplastia reductora con analgesia acupuntural

a prospective descriptive clinical trial was carried out in a sample of 40 patients suffering from breast hypertrophy who attended cosmetic surgery office at abel santamaría general hospital between september 2002 and august 2003. a reductive mastoplasia using acupunctural analgesia was carried out (c1, ig4, vc17, vg20 points and special one) assessing the quality of transoperative acupunctural analgesia, transoperative hemodynamic behaviour and the occurrence of postoperative complications. systat pack was used for statistical validation with a fitted level of a = 0.05. a transoperative analgesic level was achieved successfully in 50 % of cases including patients from every age group particularly in up to two hours surgeries irrespective of the breast hypertrophy. the transoperative homodynamic behaviour was successful in patients operated under acupuncture, using this technique it was found that endotraqueal general anaesthesia by other authors, reporting no eventful experiences when performing acupuncture.