Effects of TENS in Patients Admitted to the ICU After Cardiac Surgery (ETENSCS)

Universidade Federal de Pernambuco

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cardiac Surgery; Transcutaneous Electric Nerve Stimulation

Treatments: Device: Conventional TENS; Device: TENS low frequence group; Device: Placebo

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06664242

76710723.0.0000.5201 (Other Identifier)

Details and patient eligibility

About

Cardiac Surgery (CH) aims to increase survival and improve quality of life in eligible cardiac patients. However, as with any invasive intervention, pain is one of the main complaints of patients in the post-surgical period. This research is justified by the evaluation of the potential impact of the use of TENS as an alternative for analgesia in reducing the length of hospital stay and directly in the effective cost of patients undergoing cardiac surgeries, in reducing morbidity and mortality, as well as in the quality of life and early return to their daily activities, in addition to reducing the use of drugs and potentially their side effects. The objective of this study is to evaluate the effect of TENS for analgesia in hospitalized patients undergoing cardiac surgery, investigating its efficacy, safety and impact on postoperative recovery.

Enrollment: 10 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients of both sexes
• over 18 years of age,
• undergoing elective cardiac surgery,
• who have a sternotomy access route,
• with or without the use of pleural or mediastinal drains,
• after the first postoperative day will be selected.

Exclusion criteria

• with unstable angina,
• patients with arrhythmias,
• whether symptomatic or asymptomatic,
• with changes in the level of consciousness and cognition that may interfere with the assessment,
• use of metal implants,
• pacemakers and implantable cardioverter (ICD),
• those who presented postoperative complications such as infection in the sternotomy

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Factorial Assignment

Masking: Triple Blind

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10 participants in 3 patient groups, including a placebo group

Control Group

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

This group will not actually receive a treatment current, being subjected only to the device connected without current.

Treatment:

Device: Placebo

TENS convencional group

Experimental group

Description:

In this group, patients will undergo the hospital's usual analgesia and physiotherapy routine, plus TENS with a frequency of 140 Hz and a pulse width of 50 µs.

Treatment:

Device: Conventional TENS

TENS low frequence group

Experimental group

Description:

Patients in this group will undergo the hospital's usual analgesia and physiotherapy routine, plus conventional TENS with a low frequency of 5 Hz and a pulse width of 250 µs

Treatment:

Device: TENS low frequence group