Developmental status and prospect of musical electroacupuncture / 中国针灸

Through searching domestic and foreign medical journals in CNKI, Wanfang database, VIP database and Pubmed database from January of 2003 to November of 2013, 39 articles regarding musical electroacupuncture (MEA) were analyzed. The result showed that MEA was clinically used to treat neurological and psychotic disorders; because it was combined with musical therapy and overcame the acupuncture tolerability, and MEA was superior to traditional electroacupuncture. However, problems such as low research efficiency and the mechanism of MEA superiority and the musical specificity not being revealed by research design still exist. In future, large-sample multi-center RCT researches should be performed to clarify MEA clinical efficacy. With modern science and technology and optimized study design, guided by five-element theory of TCM, researches on different musical elements and characteristics of musical pulse current as well as MEA's correlation with meridians and organs should be studied, so as to make a further exploration on MEA mechanisms and broaden the range of its clinical application.

Adaptive de-noising of ECG signal based on stationary wavelet transform / 中国医疗器械杂志

According to the limitations of wavelet threshold in de-noising method, we approached a combining algorithm of the stationary wavelet transform with adaptive filter. The stationary wavelet transformation can suppress Gibbs phenomena in traditional DWT effectively, and adaptive filter is introduced at the high scale wavelet coefficient of the stationary wavelet transformation. It would remove baseline wander and keep the shape of low frequency and low amplitude P wave, T wave and ST segment wave of ECG signal well. That is important for analyzing ECG signal of other feature information.

Effects of scalp penetration acupuncture on plasma endothelin (ET) and calcitonin related peptide (CGRP) contents in the patient of acute intracerebral hemorrhage / 中国针灸

<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To study the mechanism of scalp penetration acupuncture treating acute cerebral hemorrhage (ACH).</p><p><b>METHODS</b>The treatment group (n = 30) and the control group (n = 30) were treated with the same basic therapy, but scalp penetration acupuncture was added to the treatment group. Changes of plasma ET and CGRP contents were compared.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>After treatment for 14 days, the content of plasma ET in the treatment group was significantly lower than that in the control group (P < 0.01). Moreover, the content of plasma CGRP was significantly higher than that in the control group (P < 0.01).</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>Scalp penetration acupuncture is able to improve the prognosis of the patient with ACH by means of regulating the contents of plasma ET and CGRP.</p>