Cranial Electrotherapy Stimulation on Anesthetics Consumption and Postoperative Pain

• Status: Recruiting
• Trial end date: 2020-12-31
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Cranial electrotherapy stimulation (CES) is a non-invasive intervention to treat anxiety, depression, insomnia, and pain. But clinical studies and applications of CES in relation to acute postoperative pain are few. tThe investigators investigate a double-blind, randomized controlled trial to figure out if intraoperative CES could decrease dosage of intraoperative anesthetics and patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) consumption in patients undergoing colon cancer surgery.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Tri-Service General Hospital
• Treatments: Analgesics, Opioid; Anesthetics

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients undergoing colon cancer surgery

Exclusion Criteria:

• presence of an implantable device (e.g., pacemaker)

• pregnancy

• having a known mental illness (e.g., schizophrenia, mood disorder, bipolar disorder, etc.

• cancer of the head and neck or brain tumor or brain metastasis

• having delirium