Zhihong Lu, Qiang Wang, Xude Sun, Wei Zhang, Su Min, Jiaqiang Zhang, Weixian Zhao, Jianfeng Jiang, Yonghui Wang, Yaomin Zhu, Lanlan Zheng, Ying Wang, Yuanyuan Guo, Liyuan Zhang, Lini Wang, Chong Lei, Tingting Liu, Xue Yang, Junbao Zhang, Chen Li, Nian Zhang, Hailong Dong, Lize Xiong
STUDY OBJECTIVE: Despite multiple interventions, the incidence of chronic pain after mastectomy could be as high as 50% after surgery. This study aimed to determine the efficacy of transcutaneous electrical acupoint stimulation (TEAS) before anesthesia induction in reducing chronic pain and to compare the effect of combined acupoint TEAS with that of single acupoint TEAS. DESIGN: A multicenter randomized clinical trial. SETTING: The study was conducted at six medical centers in China from May 2016 to April 2018...
November 2021: Journal of Clinical Anesthesia