Transcutaneous electrical acupoint stimulation reduces postoperative nausea and vomiting in female patients undergoing bariatric surgery: a prospective, randomized, controlled trial
Phase 1
Completed
- Conditions
- female patients undergoing bariatric surgery
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- Female
- Target Recruitment
- Not specified
Inclusion Criteria
female patients undergoing bariatric surgery under general anaesthesia, ASA physical status class II or IV, aged below 65 years, written informed consent was obtained.
Exclusion Criteria
1. Contraindications for transcutaneous electrical acupoint stimulation (TEAS), such as rash or local infection over the acupoint stimulation skin area, and implantation of a cardiac pacemaker or defibrillator;
2. communication difficulty, included psychiatric or neurological disease;
3. any pre-using medicine or pre-existing medical condition that limited objective assessment before operation, included use of antiemetics, opioids or glucocorticoids, and gastroesophageal reflux;
4. invovled other study within three months of this study beginning.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional study
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method the incidence of nausea;the incidence of vomiting;need for rescue antiemetics;the incidence of retching;
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method time of the first postoperative flatus;Postoperative complications;Time to mobility;Postoperative hospital costs;pain intensity evaluated by VAS;the information of operation and anaesthesia;Time to oral diet;Postoperative hospital stays;