Effects of electroacupuncture on postoperative pain and gastrointestinal motility after laparoscopic appendectomy
- Conditions
- Diseases of the digestive system
- Registration Number
- KCT0001486
- Lead Sponsor
- Dongguk University Gyeongju Hospital
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ot yet recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 87
1. Patients diagnosed as appendicitis
2. Female or male patients over 20 years old
3. Patients undergoing laparoscopic appendectomy
1. Patients who need simultaneous combined surgery (including ileocecectomy)
2. Patients diagnosed with combined other diseases as well as appendicitis, preoperatively or intrapoperatively (e.g. colonic diverticulitis, inflammator bowel disease, pelvic inflammatory disease, etc.)
3. Patients who need postoperative fasting according to preoperative evaluation or intraoperative findings (e.g. panperitonitis with intraperitoneal abscess)
4. Patients under treatment for acute disease other than appendicitis
5. Patients converted to open surgery
6. Patients with cardiac pacemaker
7. Patients with allergy to or phobia of acupuncture needle or electrostimulation
8. Patients with history of syncope or seizure
9. Pregnant women or lactating women
10. Patients with history of abdominal surgery
11. Patients with American Society of Anesthesiologists'(ASA) physical status classification IV
12. Patients who do not consent to clinical trial
13. Patients incapable of reading, understanding, and signing a written consent form (e.g. mentally retarded, blinded, illiterate, foreigners, etc.)
14. Inmates of a prison or institution/hospital
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional Study
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Time of first passing flatus after operation
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Postoperative pain score;Bowel sound per minute;Postoperative nausea and/or vomiting;Time to tolerable water drinking and solid diet after operation;Postoperative analgesics;Postoperative complications;Readmission rate due to postoperative complications;Time to mobilization(self walking) and self support to preoperative level;Postoperative quality of life questionnaire;Postoperative hospital stay;Total cost during hospital stay after operation;Protocol failure rate