Electroacupuncture Anesthesia for Nasal Sinus Surgery and Mammaplasty

Air Force Military Medical University of People's Liberation Army

Status: Completed

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

Treatments: Procedure: Electroacupuncture; Procedure: non-electroacupuncture

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01700855

mazuike-28

Details and patient eligibility

About

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

Full 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).

Enrollment: 137 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 29 to 60 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• selective nasal sinus surgery
• selective mammaplasty
• patients who accept the follow-up and sign the informed consent
• ASA 1~2

Exclusion criteria

• emergent surgery
• pregnant or breast-feeding women
• coagulopathy
• history of gastrointestinal ulcer
• liver or renal dysfunction
• enrollment in other clinical trials at the same time not reaching the primary endpoint and probably interference the present trial

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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137 participants in 2 patient groups

Electroacupuncture

Experimental group

Description:

Patients received electroacupuncture stimulation

Treatment:

Procedure: Electroacupuncture

Non-electroacupuncture

Sham Comparator group

Description:

Patients received sham electroacupuncture

Treatment:

Procedure: non-electroacupuncture