Nutritional Supplementation and Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation in Lung Transplant Patients

Efficacy of neuromuscular electrical stimulation for thoracic and abdominal surgery: A systematic review and meta-analysis

“…Furthermore, the evidence is very uncertain about the effect of NMES on length of stay in the ICU in pulmonary surgery (one study [ 40 ], 6 participants MD, −2.00, 95% CI −11.73–7.73; very low certainty evidence) ( Fig 4A and Table 4 ). The evidence is very uncertain about the effect of NMES on the length of hospital stay in pulmonary surgery (one study [ 40 ], 6 participants: MD, −6.30, 95% CI −16.90 to 4.30; very low certainty evidence) ( Fig 4B and Table 4 ).…”

“…After screening, we excluded 17 studies due to incorrect population, nine for incorrect intervention, and one for incorrect design (S2 Table ). In the qualitative synthesis, we identified 18 RCTs [30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47] that met all the eligibility criteria (Fig 1 and Table 1). The 18 RCTs included 915 patients who underwent thoracic and abdominal surgeries and were postoperatively treated with NMES.…”

“…Out of the 18 RCTs, four [33,36,41,44] were only protocol registrations and did not have outcome data. Overall, there were 10 studies [30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39] in cardiovascular surgery, two [40,41] in pulmonary surgery, five [42][43][44][45][46] in digestive system surgery, and one [47] in other surgeries. Cardiovascular surgery studies included aortic valve replacement, coronary artery bypass grafting, heart transplantation, mitral valve replacement, mitral valve reconstruction, or tricuspid valve reconstruction.…”