Investigating the efficacy of electroacupuncture for postoperative ileus in patients with colorectal cancer: study protocol for a multicentre clinical trial with neuroimaging assessment
Ze-Yi Wang, Cun-Zhi Liu, Wei Pei, Tian-Zhen Zhang, Jing Zhang, Wen-Wen Fan, Xiao-Ya Wei, Jian-Feng Tu, Lu Wang, Xu Wang, Na-Na Yang · 2025
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Ze-Yi Wang and co-authors lay out a trial of electroacupuncture for stalled bowels after colon cancer surgery in a 2025 protocol. Postoperative ileus, where the gut sleeps too long, burdens patients and hospitals alike. Needle therapy with mild electric pulses is widely used in China for this problem, but how it acts on the brain is unclear.
Fifty patients at three hospitals will be randomized to real or sham treatment, with five daily half-hour sessions after surgery. Brain scans before and after will track functional changes. The main outcome is time to first stool, with gas passage, walking, eating, pain, and hospital stay also recorded. Expectation and blinding checks are built in. The protocol was ethics-approved and registered.
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| CREATOR | Ze-Yi Wang, Cun-Zhi Liu, Wei Pei, Tian-Zhen Zhang, Jing Zhang, Wen-Wen Fan, Xiao-Ya Wei, Jian-Feng Tu, Lu Wang, Xu Wang, Na-Na Yang |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 37 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |