PMID- 26568767
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
DCOM- 20151116
LR  - 20220316
IS  - 1741-427X (Print)
IS  - 1741-4288 (Electronic)
IS  - 1741-427X (Linking)
VI  - 2015
DP  - 2015
TI  - Acupuncture-Point Stimulation for Postoperative Pain Control: A Systematic Review 
      and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.
PG  - 657809
LID - 10.1155/2015/657809 [doi]
LID - 657809
AB  - The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of Acupuncture-point 
      stimulation (APS) in postoperative pain control compared with sham/placebo 
      acupuncture or standard treatments (usual care or no treatment). Only randomized 
      controlled trials (RCTs) were included. Meta-analysis results indicated that APS 
      interventions improved VAS scores significantly and also reduced total morphine 
      consumption. No serious APS-related adverse effects (AEs) were reported. There is 
      Level I evidence for the effectiveness of body points plaster therapy and Level 
      II evidence for body points electroacupuncture (EA), body points acupressure, 
      body points APS for abdominal surgery patients, auricular points seed embedding, 
      manual auricular acupuncture, and auricular EA. We obtained Level III evidence 
      for body points APS in patients who underwent cardiac surgery and cesarean 
      section and for auricular-point stimulation in patients who underwent abdominal 
      surgery. There is insufficient evidence to conclude that APS is an effective 
      postoperative pain therapy in surgical patients, although the evidence does 
      support the conclusion that APS can reduce analgesic requirements without AEs. 
      The best level of evidence was not adequate in most subgroups. Some limitations 
      of this study may have affected the results, possibly leading to an 
      overestimation of APS effects.
FAU - Liu, Xian-Liang
AU  - Liu XL
AD  - 10th People's Hospital of Tongji University, 301 Yanchang Road, Shanghai 200072, 
      China ; School of Nursing, Midwifery and Paramedicine, Australian Catholic 
      University, 1100 Nudgee Road, Banyo, Brisbane, QLD 4014, Australia ; School of 
      Nursing, Jinggangshan University, 28 Xueyuan Road, Ji'an 343009, China.
FAU - Tan, Jing-Yu
AU  - Tan JY
AD  - School of Nursing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong 
      Kong.
FAU - Molassiotis, Alex
AU  - Molassiotis A
AD  - School of Nursing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong 
      Kong.
FAU - Suen, Lorna K P
AU  - Suen LK
AD  - School of Nursing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong 
      Kong.
FAU - Shi, Yan
AU  - Shi Y
AD  - 10th People's Hospital of Tongji University, 301 Yanchang Road, Shanghai 200072, 
      China.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Review
DEP - 20151012
PL  - United States
TA  - Evid Based Complement Alternat Med
JT  - Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM
JID - 101215021
PMC - PMC4620376
EDAT- 2015/11/17 06:00
MHDA- 2015/11/17 06:01
PMCR- 2015/10/12
CRDT- 2015/11/17 06:00
PHST- 2015/04/03 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2015/08/19 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2015/09/03 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2015/11/17 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2015/11/17 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2015/11/17 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2015/10/12 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 10.1155/2015/657809 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Evid Based Complement Alternat Med. 2015;2015:657809. doi: 10.1155/2015/657809. 
      Epub 2015 Oct 12.