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Randomized, Controlled, Single-blind Exploratory Study of the Efficacy and Safety of Wrist and Ankle Acupuncture Intervention on Nausea, Vomiting and Pain After Sleeve Gastric Surgery in Women

NCT05873270 · Status: UNKNOWN · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 66

Last updated 2023-05-24

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Summary

PONV is the most common clinical presentation after surgical procedures beyond pain. A retrospective study of our center found that the postoperative incidence of LSG was 77.4%. PONV can not only cause postoperative discomfort, but also cause serious complications such as disturbance water and electrolyte balance, wound splitting, incisional hernia, and even residual gastric leakage and aspiration pneumonia, resulting in prolonged hospital stay and increased medical costs. Wrist and ankle acupuncture is a special kind of acupuncture therapy. Through subcutaneous stimulation, the electrical signal is fed back along the nerve fiber into the cerebral cortex, without dialectical treatment, and only needs the appropriate symptoms and signs of the patient. Although only in the wrist and ankle, it can solve a series of problems in the whole body, especially nausea, vomiting and pain symptoms.

Conditions

  • Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy
  • Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting

Interventions

OTHER

Wrist and ankle acupuncture

Patients in the intervention arm started the wrist and ankle acupuncture treatment 1 day before the surgery. Take up and down 1,2 area as a needle point, use hua tuo brand sterile acupuncture needle (specification: 0.25mm 25mm), into the skin disinfection into the needle, keep 30 subcutaneous needle and skin, when the operator under the needle, patients without acid swelling, pain, close to the skin dermis, to about 1.5 inches, give tape fixed 24h, left under the skin, until postoperative 3 day.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • LILIAN GAO

    lead OTHER

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
65 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-03-23
Primary Completion
2024-03-23
Completion
2025-04-15

Countries

  • China

Study Locations

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