TEAS to Improve Outcome During Emergence From General Anesthesia After Robotic Surgery (TIGER)

Air Force Military Medical University of People's Liberation Army

Status: Completed

Conditions: Anesthesia

Treatments: Other: non-acupoint stimulation; Other: acupoint stimulation; Other: electrode attached; Device: electrical stimulation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02323958

XJH-A-2014-6-26-01

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study is to observe whether transcutaneous electrical stimulation at specific acupoints could improve the quality of emergence in patients undergoing robotic laparoscopic gynecologic surgery.

Full description

During robotic laparoscopic gynecologic surgery, the patients are put in an extremely trendelenburg positon. And a long duration of this position could lead to delayed emergence or agitation. Stimulation at some acupoints were reported to improve homeostasis. In this study we tend to observe whether transcutaneous electrical stimulation at specific acupoints could improve the quality of emergence in patients undergoing robotic laparoscopic gynecologic surgery.

Enrollment: 150 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients scheduled for robotic laparoscopic gynecologic surgery under general anesthesia
• Patients with written informed consent

Exclusion criteria

• Patients with difficulty in communication
• Patients with disease of central nervous system

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Triple Blind

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150 participants in 3 patient groups, including a placebo group

Acupoint stimulation

Experimental group

Description:

Electrical stimulation is given through electrodes attached to acupoints

Treatment:

Device: electrical stimulation

Other: electrode attached

Other: acupoint stimulation

Non-acupoint stimulation

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

Electrical stimulation is given through electrodes attached to non-acupoints

Treatment:

Device: electrical stimulation

Other: electrode attached

Other: non-acupoint stimulation

Control stimulation

Sham Comparator group

Description:

Electrode attached but no stimulation is given

Treatment:

Other: electrode attached