title: Choice of anaesthesia in dental operations.
abstract: Choice of anaesthesia between drug and acupuncture for dental surgeries has been a historical issue. Using the tool of decision analysis and clinical data from the medical literature, we developed an adequate mechanism for decision-making in the choice of dental anaesthesia. Our original approach toward the solution of this issue was two-dimensional decision analysis. In general our analytical results revealed that drugs are the preferred selection of anaesthesia for dental surgery. However, this conclusion is subject to the influence of a patient's physical and/or mental state. A typical decision analysis indicated that acupuncture analgesia is the preferred selection for dental patients with myocardial infarction.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Informatics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sun
mesh_terms: D015667:Acupuncture Analgesia; D000766:Anesthesia, Dental / Q000379:methods* / Q000401:mortality; D000777:Anesthetics / Q000009:adverse effects; D001499:Bayes Theorem; D003663:Decision Trees; D006801:Humans; D010149:Postoperative Pain / Q000517:prevention & control*; D011336:Probability; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D013515:Surgery, Oral; D016019:Survival Analysis
chemical_list: D000777:Anesthetics