Clinical Study of TEAS Intervention in Relieving Anxiety Before Thoracoscopic Surgery
At present, effective clinical intervention methods for anxiety mainly include anti-anxiety drug treatment, psychotherapy and acupuncture-related treatment. Most of the anti-anxiety drugs are benzodiazepines, which have a very direct sedative effect, but frequent use is prone to drug dependence, excessive sedation and other shortcomings. Psychotherapy is expensive and not well accepted by the general public. Acupuncture-related treatments are adopted by more and more doctors and patients due to its advantages of small adverse reactions and low costs. Acupuncture has the effects of relieving anxiety and reducing pain, and can play a great role in the perioperative period. Systematic reviews have found that acupuncture has a significant effect on anxiety, and it is better than the drug control group. At the same time, the acupuncture effect can also relieve postoperative nausea and vomiting and prevent postoperative discomfort. However, although acupuncture is used to relieve anxiety in neurology and neurosurgery, onychomycosis, gynecology and other clinical departments and has drawn considerable conclusions, acupuncture intervention relieves anxiety during the perioperative period of thoracic surgery. There is still a lack of systematic research on the efficacy evaluation. Transcutaneous Electrical Acupoints Point Stimulation (TEAS) technology originated from traditional Chinese acupuncture and moxibustion. It is a type of peripheral stimulation that delivers low-frequency pulse currents to the human body through the skin to achieve a therapeutic effect. In contrast, TEAS has the advantages of being non-invasive, easy to repeat, safe, and low in cost, and is easy to be accepted by patients. Therefore, replacing the traditional acupuncture technology with TEAS technology has a more unique advantage in clinical application. As chest CT examinations become more common, the detection rate of early lung cancer has gradually increased in recent years. As the mainstream treatment of thoracic surgery, thoracoscopic surgery is widely used clinically. Therefore, how to make the majority of patients undergoing thoracoscopic surgery have a better diagnosis and treatment experience is an urgent clinical problem.
Start: June 2021