NCT02741726

Analgesia by Single or Dual Acupoints Stimulation After Radical Mastectomy

Effect of Combined-acupoint or Single-acupoint Stimulation Before Surgery on Post Mastectomy Pain: a Multicentre Randomised Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 593 (actual)
• Sponsor: Zhihong LU · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to compare the effects of dual acupoints and single acupoint transcutaneous electrical acupoint stimulation (TEAS) pretreatment on incidence of Post-Mastectomy Pain Syndrome(PMPS) in patients undergoing operation of breast cancer.

Detailed description

Patients were randomly assigned to three groups, receiving 30min TEAS before anesthesia respectively. The acupoints of dual point group are bilateral Neiguan points(PC6) combined with Danzhong point(RN17), single point group is bilateral Neiguan points(PC6), and the false stimulation group only attach electrodes without electric current. The frequency of TEAS is set to 2/15 Hz. Intraoperative anesthetic dosage of propofol and remifentanil was recorded. Three and six months after surgery, follow-up about chronic pain was made by telephone or face-to-face using the follow-up questionnaire. The adverse events were recorded.

Conditions

• Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	acupoint stimulation	Electric stimulation was given through electrode attached to acupoints
DEVICE	no stimulation	patients were only attached electrodes without electric current

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-05-25
• Primary completion: 2017-10-23
• Completion: 2018-10-23
• First posted: 2016-04-18
• Last updated: 2019-10-16

Locations

6 sites across 1 country: China