ReviewFrontiers in aging neuroscience2023
Transcutaneous electrical acupoint stimulation for the prevention of postoperative delirium in elderly surgical patients: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
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14 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 19 citations in OpenAlex.
- Electroacupuncture for the prevention of perioperative neurocognitive disorder in elderly patients undergoing general anesthesia: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Pooled it
- Effect of Continuous Perioperative Transcutaneous Electrical Acupoint Stimulation on Postoperative Delirium in Elderly Patients Undergoing Laparoscopic Gastrointestinal Surgery: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Clinical interventions in aging · 2026Trial
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- Electroacupuncture for the Prevention of Perioperative Neurocognitive Disorder in Older Patients Undergoing General Anesthesia: Protocol for a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.JMIR research protocols · 2025Article
- Preoperative electroacupuncture for prevention of postoperative delirium in older adults undergoing total knee arthroplasty: protocol for a multicenter randomized controlled trial.Annals of medicine · 2025Article
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- Acupuncture for ICU patients: evidence, mechanisms, and implementation challenges.Frontiers in neurology · 2025Review
- Efficacy of preoperative transcutaneous electrical acupoint stimulation in reducing postoperative delirium in older adults undergoing orthopedic surgery: a randomized controlled trial.Frontiers in neurology · 2025Article
- Effects of Transcutaneous Electrical Acupoint Stimulation on Postoperative Acute Visceral, Incisional, and Low Back Pain and Recovery in Patients Undergoing Laparoscopic Hysterectomy: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of pain research · 2025Article
- Electroacupuncture and Transcutaneous Electrical Acupoint Stimulation for Perioperative Neurocognitive Disorder in Older Patients Undergoing Cardiac Surgery: Protocol for Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.JMIR research protocols · 2024Article
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- Transcutaneous electrical acupoint stimulation for prevention of postoperative urinary retention: A systematic review.Heliyon · 2024Article
- Regarding a recently published Meta-analysis on moxibustion for lumbar disc herniation.Journal of traditional Chinese medicine = Chung i tsa chih ying wen pan · 2023Article
- Editorial: Postoperative care: from pain management to delirium.Frontiers in medicine · 2023Article
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5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Objective: This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to evaluate the preventive effect of transcutaneous electrical acupoint stimulation on postoperative delirium in elderly surgical patients. Methods: PubMed, CENTRAL, China National Knowledge Infrastructure, and WanFang databases were searched for randomized controlled trials regarding the effect of transcutaneous electrical acupoint stimulation on preventing postoperative delirium in elderly patients undergoing any type of surgery. The primary outcome was the incidence of postoperative delirium. The secondary outcome was the duration of postoperative delirium. All analyses were conducted using RevMan 5.3 and Stata 13.0 software. Results: Twelve trials with 991 participants were included, and most of them were at high/unclear risk of bias. Meta-analysis showed transcutaneous electrical acupoint stimulation could reduce the incidence of postoperative delirium (RR = 0.40, 95%CI = 0.29 to 0.55, Conclusion: Transcutaneous electrical acupoint stimulation could reduce the incidence of postoperative delirium and shorten the duration of postoperative delirium in elderly surgical patients. The findings should be interpreted with caution due to weak evidence. High-quality, large sample, and multi-center trials are needed to further confirm the preliminary findings.
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