Acupuncture anesthesia (AA) appeared in 1950s. It originates with Chinese TCM researchers and is one of important achievements of modern medicine. AA was developed vigorously and applied widely between 1960s-1970s. Due to the objective and subjective reasons, clinical application and research of AA in recent 20 years have developed very little. The paper reviews the formation and development processes of AA, analyzes the advantages and mechanisms of AA and its problems, then provides the feasible advice for the development of AA.
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Otol Neurotol
February 2025
Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery.
Objective: To compare fall risk scores of hearing aids embedded with inertial measurement units (IMU-HAs) and powered by artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms with scores by trained observers.
Study Design: Prospective, double-blinded, observational study of fall risk scores between trained observers and those of IMU-HAs.
Setting: Tertiary referral center.
PLOS Glob Public Health
January 2025
Laboratoire d'Ecologie Vectorielle et Parasitaire (LEVP), Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar, Dakar, Senegal.
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January 2025
Universidade Estadual Paulista, Faculdade de Medicina, Departamento de Clínica Médica, Botucatu, SP, Brazil.
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National Key Laboratory of Human Factors Engineering, China Astronaut Research and Training Centre, Beijing, China.
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Hepatobiliary Surgery, Hepatobiliary Disease Laboratory, Kailuan General Hospital, Tangshan, Hebei Province, China.
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