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Effects of TEAS on Stress Response During Extubation of General Anesthesia in Elderly Patients

NCT02533388 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 100

Last updated 2017-03-14

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Summary

Elderly patients have an increased risk of stress responses during extubation after general anaesthesia for an elective supratentorial craniotomy. How to decrease the stress responses during extubation after general anaesthesia remains challenging for the anaesthesiologist. In this study, we aimed to investigate whether transcutaneous electrical acupoint stimulation (TEAS) might decrease the stress responses and improve the quality of recovery in the elderly patients who underwent elective supratentorial craniotomy under general anaesthesia.

Conditions

  • Stress

Interventions

DEVICE

Hwato Electronic Acupuncture Treatment Instrument

Thirty minutes prior to the induction of anaesthesia, the patients in the TEAS group started to receive TEAS by a stimulator (Hwato Electronic Acupuncture Treatment Instrument, model No.: SDZ-II, Suzhou Medical Appliances Co., Ltd., Suzhou, China) to the right hand, forearm and neck by an experienced acupuncturist at the Hegu (LI4), Neiguan (PC6), Lieque (LU7), Chize (LU5), Futu (LI18) and Renying (ST9) acupoints. TEAS was peformed with an alternate dense-disperse frequency of 2 and10 Hz ( 2 Hz for 10 s and 10 Hz for 5 s). The optimal intensity ranged from 6-15 mA, The stimulus continued until 5 min before the end of surgery.

DEVICE

Placebo

The patients in the Sham group were also connected to the apparatus, but electronic stimulation was not applied.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Shengjing Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Junchao Zhu, doctor · professor

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
QUADRUPLE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
60 Years
Max Age
70 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-12-31
Primary Completion
2017-03-31
Completion
2017-03-31

Countries

  • China

Study Locations

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