Acupuncture Aided Local Anesthesia for Penile Vascular Surgeries

Despite topical anesthetic blockage for penile surgeries has been substantially reported in the medical literature, a heavy intravenous sedation is unexceptionally used. We sought to report an acupuncture assisted pure local anesthesia on the ambulatory basis under several methods of topical blocks. From 1989 to 2017, 3223 men (ages 19 to 91 years) received our ambulatory penile vascular surgeries. They were categorized into the venous (n= 2867), patch (n= 323), and arterial groups (n= 33) in accordance with penile venous stripping, penile autologous venous patches, and penile arterial reconstruction surgery respectively. The chosen acupoints involve Hegu (LI4), Shou San Li (LI10), Quchi (LI11) , and either Waiguan (SJ5) or Neiguan (PC6). In tandem with our advanced penile anatomy, the topical blocks include proximal dorsal nerve block, peripenile infiltration, bilateral crural blockage and topical infiltration. These blockages are sufficient local anesthesia for patients with varied vascular surgeries unless a penile implant which requires bilateral cavernous nerve block. The anesthetic effects when a visual analog scale of 100 mm was used, and postoperative results were satisfactory.