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Adverse Events of Acupuncture: A Systematic Review of Case Reports
Acupuncture, moxibustion, and cupping, important in traditional Eastern medicine, are increasingly used in the West. Their widening acceptance demands continual safety assessment. This review, a sequel to one our team published 10 years ago, is an evaluation of the frequency and severity of adverse...
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Hindawi Publishing Corporation
2013
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3616356/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23573135 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/581203 |
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author | Xu, Shifen Wang, Lizhen Cooper, Emily Zhang, Ming Manheimer, Eric Berman, Brian Shen, Xueyong Lao, Lixing |
author_facet | Xu, Shifen Wang, Lizhen Cooper, Emily Zhang, Ming Manheimer, Eric Berman, Brian Shen, Xueyong Lao, Lixing |
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description | Acupuncture, moxibustion, and cupping, important in traditional Eastern medicine, are increasingly used in the West. Their widening acceptance demands continual safety assessment. This review, a sequel to one our team published 10 years ago, is an evaluation of the frequency and severity of adverse events (AEs) reported for acupuncture, moxibustion, and cupping between 2000 and 2011. Relevant English-language reports in six databases were identified and assessed by two reviewers. During this 12-year period, 117 reports of 308 AEs from 25 countries and regions were associated with acupuncture (294 cases), moxibustion (4 cases), or cupping (10 cases). Country of occurrence, patient's sex and age, and outcome were extracted. Infections, mycobacterial, staphylococcal, and others, were the main complication of acupuncture. In the previous review, we found the main source of infection to be hepatitis, caused by reusable needles. In this review, we found the majority of infections to be bacterial, caused by skin contact at acupoint sites; we found no cases of hepatitis. Although the route of infection had changed, infections were still the major complication of acupuncture. Clearly, guidelines such as Clean Needle Technique must be followed in order to minimize acupuncture AEs. |
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spelling | pubmed-36163562013-04-09 Adverse Events of Acupuncture: A Systematic Review of Case Reports Xu, Shifen Wang, Lizhen Cooper, Emily Zhang, Ming Manheimer, Eric Berman, Brian Shen, Xueyong Lao, Lixing Evid Based Complement Alternat Med Review Article Acupuncture, moxibustion, and cupping, important in traditional Eastern medicine, are increasingly used in the West. Their widening acceptance demands continual safety assessment. This review, a sequel to one our team published 10 years ago, is an evaluation of the frequency and severity of adverse events (AEs) reported for acupuncture, moxibustion, and cupping between 2000 and 2011. Relevant English-language reports in six databases were identified and assessed by two reviewers. During this 12-year period, 117 reports of 308 AEs from 25 countries and regions were associated with acupuncture (294 cases), moxibustion (4 cases), or cupping (10 cases). Country of occurrence, patient's sex and age, and outcome were extracted. Infections, mycobacterial, staphylococcal, and others, were the main complication of acupuncture. In the previous review, we found the main source of infection to be hepatitis, caused by reusable needles. In this review, we found the majority of infections to be bacterial, caused by skin contact at acupoint sites; we found no cases of hepatitis. Although the route of infection had changed, infections were still the major complication of acupuncture. Clearly, guidelines such as Clean Needle Technique must be followed in order to minimize acupuncture AEs. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013 2013-03-20 /pmc/articles/PMC3616356/ /pubmed/23573135 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/581203 Text en Copyright © 2013 Shifen Xu et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Review Article Xu, Shifen Wang, Lizhen Cooper, Emily Zhang, Ming Manheimer, Eric Berman, Brian Shen, Xueyong Lao, Lixing Adverse Events of Acupuncture: A Systematic Review of Case Reports |
title | Adverse Events of Acupuncture: A Systematic Review of Case Reports |
title_full | Adverse Events of Acupuncture: A Systematic Review of Case Reports |
title_fullStr | Adverse Events of Acupuncture: A Systematic Review of Case Reports |
title_full_unstemmed | Adverse Events of Acupuncture: A Systematic Review of Case Reports |
title_short | Adverse Events of Acupuncture: A Systematic Review of Case Reports |
title_sort | adverse events of acupuncture: a systematic review of case reports |
topic | Review Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3616356/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23573135 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/581203 |
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