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ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2021

Transcutaneous Electrical Acupoint Stimulation Reduces Postoperative Analgesic Requirement in Patients Undergoing Inguinal Hernia Repair: A Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Study.

Mateusz Szmit, Siddarth Agrawal, Waldemar Goździk, Andrzej Kübler, Anil Agrawal, Piotr Pruchnicki, Marta Woźniak, Matylda Nowak, Bartłomiej Bartoszewicz, Jerzy Rudnicki

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Article in Journal of clinical medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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16citing papers in PubMed, 6 pooled it
3.0field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

16 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 28 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. The healing power of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation: a systematic review on its effects after breast surgery.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Mateusz SzmitDepartment and Clinic of General, Minimally Invasive and Endocrine Surgery, Wroclaw Medical University, 50-556 Wroclaw, Poland.
Siddarth AgrawalDepartment and Clinic of Internal Medicine, Occupational Diseases, Hypertension and Clinical Oncology, Wroclaw Medical University, 50-556 Wroclaw, Poland.ORCID 0000-0003-1118-5090
Waldemar GoździkDepartment and Clinic of Anesthesiology and Intensive Therapy, Wroclaw Medical University, 50-556 Wroclaw, Poland.
Andrzej KüblerDepartment and Clinic of Anesthesiology and Intensive Therapy, Wroclaw Medical University, 50-556 Wroclaw, Poland.
Anil AgrawalSecond Department and Clinic of General and Oncological Surgery, Wroclaw Medical University, 50-556 Wroclaw, Poland.
Piotr PruchnickiDepartment of Acoustics and Multimedia, Faculty of Electronics, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, 50-370 Wroclaw, Poland.ORCID 0000-0001-5166-0840
Marta WoźniakDepartment of Pathology, Wroclaw Medical University, 50-556 Wroclaw, Poland.
Matylda NowakDepartment of Design, The Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design, 50-416 Wroclaw, Poland.ORCID 0000-0001-9282-9833
Bartłomiej BartoszewiczDepartment of Econometrics and Operations Research, Wroclaw University of Economics and Business, 53-345 Wroclaw, Poland.
Jerzy RudnickiDepartment and Clinic of General, Minimally Invasive and Endocrine Surgery, Wroclaw Medical University, 50-556 Wroclaw, Poland.
Wroclaw Medical University · PLEugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wroclaw · PLWroclaw University of Economics and Business · PLWrocław University of Science and Technology · PL

Funding

Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Poland within the "Diamentowy Grant" 0105/DIA/2017/46
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Given the rising rate of opioid-related adverse drug events during postsurgical pain management, a nonpharmacologic therapy that could decrease analgesic medication requirements would be of immense value. We designed a prospective, placebo-and-randomized controlled trial to assess the clinical effect of transcutaneous acupoint electrical stimulation (TEAS) on the postoperative patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) requirement for morphine, as well as side effects and recovery profile after inguinal hernia repair. Seventy-one subjects undergoing inguinal hernia repair with a standardized anesthetic technique were randomly assigned to one of three analgesic treatment regimens: PCA + TEAS (

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acupunctureinguinal herniapatient-controlled analgesiaTEAS

Identifiers

PMID33406735
PMCPMC7794768
OpenAlexW3118412332

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