Objective To explore the application of Body Tom® mobile CT combined with basic anesthesia in preoperative painless positioning of small pulmonary nodules, and evaluate its safety and effectiveness. Methods Patients using mobile Body Tom® CT to accurately locate pulmonary nodules in the Department of Thoracic Surgery of Affiliated Nanjing Brain Hospital, Nanjing Medical University from August to October 2022 were retrospectively included. Clinical data of the whole patient group were analyzed. ResultsWe finally included 30 patients with 12 males and 18 females at age of 23-71 years. The position success rate of 30 patients with small pulmonary nodules was 100.0%. Location time was 14.20±4.07 min. There was one patient of intrapulmonary hemorrhage, with no other complications such as pneumothorax, positioning needle shedding, or pleural reaction. The time from the end of positioning to the start of surgery was 12.63±5.68 min. There was no needle migration or indocyanine green overflow. All patients completed resection of small pulmonary nodules under single-port thoracoscopy, no transit to opening chest. The average operation time was 85.32±12.60 min. There was no postoperative complications, and the average postoperative chest tube retention time was 2.12±1.34 days. And the average length of hospital stay was 3.52±1.45 days. The postoperative pathological results showed that the distance from the nodules was greater than 2 cm. Conclusion Body Tom® mobile CT combined with basic anesthesia can achieve the preoperative painless, precise positioning of pulmonary nodules, effectively reduce the incidence of preoperative positioning complications, shorten the operation waiting time, ensure the safety and effectiveness of patients with preoperative pulmonary nodules positioning, and further improve the surgical comfort of patients, which has certain clinical application value.
Objective To evaluate the safety and efficacy of basic anesthesia combined with local anesthesia in the preoperative localization of multiple pulmonary nodules. Methods The clinical data of 200 patients who underwent preoperative localization for multiple pulmonary nodules resection under single-port thoracoscopy in Nanjing Brain Hospital from July 2023 to September 2023 were extracted. They were divided into a group A and a group B, according to the localization method. The group A consisted of 100 patients who were localized under local anesthesia, and the group B consisted of 100 patients who were localized with basic anesthesia combined with local anesthesia. The basic clinical characteristics, localization success rate, incidence of localization complications, localization time, and pain score of the two groups were compared and analyzed. Results The incidence of localization complications (4% vs. 13%), localization time [(19.9±8.66) min vs. (15.23± 5.98) min], and pain score (2.01±2.09 vs. 3.29± 2.54, P≤0.05) in the group B were significantly lower than those in the group A, and the differences were statistically significant. The localization success rate of the group B was significantly higher than that of the group A (98% vs. 92%, P≤0.05), and the difference was statistically significant. Conclusion Basic anesthesia combined with local anesthesia for preoperative localization of multiple pulmonary nodules under mobile CT has the advantages of short localization time, fewer localization complications, high safety, high success rate, and high patient comfort, and has certain clinical promotion value.