Effect of Combined Lumbar Anesthesia and Epidural Anesthesia on Post-operative Analgesia in Elderly Patients with Lower Extremity Fracture
Objective To analyze the postoperative analgesic effect of combined lumbar anesthesia and epidural anes-thesia in elderly patients with lower limb fracture.Methods 80 elderly patients with lower extremity fracture surgery admitted to Dongtai Mei's Hospital of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine from January 2020 to January 2023 were purposefully selected as the study objects and were divided into control group(n=40,tracheal intubation general anesthesia)and observation group(n=40,combined lumbar anesthesia and epidural anesthesia)by the difference of an-esthesia scheme.The anesthetic effects of different anesthesia methods were compared.Results At 12,24,48 h after surgery,the pain degree score of the observation group were lower those that of the control group,and the anesthesia related time of the observation group was shorter than that of the control group,the differences were statistically signifi-cant(all P<0.05).The incidence of adverse reactions in observation group(2.50%)was lower than that in control group(20.00%),and the difference was statistically significant(χ2=4.507,P<0.05).Conclusion Compared with gen-eral anesthesia,the combination of lumbar anesthesia and epidural anesthesia in elderly patients with lower extremity fracture has better postoperative analgesia and less postoperative adverse reactions.