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Acupoint Stimulation Alleviates Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting

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Zhihong LU

Status

Unknown

Conditions

PONV

Treatments

Device: transcutaneous electrical acupoint stimulation

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT05396716
XJH-A-20220410

Details and patient eligibility

About

Incidence of postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) could be high as 60% after liver surgery. Acupoint stimulation has been proved to decrease PONV. In this study, we will investigate the effect of transcutaneous electrical acupoint stimulation on incidence of PONV after liver surgery.

Enrollment

158 estimated patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • age ≥18 years
  • scheduled for elective liver surgery under general anesthesia

Exclusion criteria

  • body mass index less than 18 kg/m2 or higher than 30 kg/m2
  • American Society of Anesthesiologists status higher than Ⅲ
  • patients with contraindication to transcutaneous electrical stimulation, including skin damage, infection or implantable electrical device
  • suspected or existed abuse of drug or alcohol
  • pregnant or breeding women
  • history of neurological or psychiatric disease

Trial design

Primary purpose

Prevention

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

Quadruple Blind

158 participants in 2 patient groups

transcutaneous electrical acupoint stimulation
Experimental group
Treatment:
Device: transcutaneous electrical acupoint stimulation
Control
No Intervention group

Trial contacts and locations

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Central trial contact

Shan He; Zhihong Lu

Data sourced from clinicaltrials.gov

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