NCT01700855

Electroacupuncture Anesthesia for Nasal Sinus Surgery and Mammaplasty

Electroacupuncture for Pain Relief in Patients With Nasal Sinus Surgery and Mammaplasty: a Randomized Controlled Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 137 (actual)
• Sponsor: Xijing Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 29 Years – 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to verify the intraoperative analgesia of electroacupuncture in patients undergoing selective nasal sinus surgery and mammaplasty.

Detailed description

Acupuncture therapy has been proved helpful in the patients suffering from various pain problems. And it is reported to be able to reduce the intraoperative anesthetic requirement. However, so far there is few evidence from randomized controlled studies to confirm the assistant anesthetic effect of acupuncture. Electroacupuncture (EA) is a modern non-invasive technique of traditional acupuncture. Compared to traditional acupuncture, EA is more practicable, more easily to be accepted by patients and operated by physicians. Nasal sinus surgery and mammaplasty, especially breast augmentation, mostly belong to the scope of day surgeries, which demand a rapid, smooth recovery from anesthesia with minimum adverse side effects (e.g.: pain, PONV, etc).

Conditions

• Therapeutic (Nonsurgical) and Rehabilitative Anesthesiology Devices Associated With Adverse Incidents

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	non-electroacupuncture	The same procedure as electroacupuncture except stimulation
PROCEDURE	Electroacupuncture	Electrodes are applied to bilateral "Hegu(L14)" acupoints at the time of 1h before operation, and connected to Hwato Electronic Acupuncture Treatment Instrument (Model No. SDZ-V, Suzhou Medical Appliances Co., Ltd., Suzhou, China). The acupoints are stimulated at an intensity of 3\~6 mA and a frequency of 2/30 Hz for 30 min. The highest intensity will be chosen at which the patient can tolerate.

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-06-01
• Primary completion: 2012-11-01
• Completion: 2012-12-01
• First posted: 2012-10-04
• Last updated: 2014-07-11

Locations

1 site across 1 country: China