title: [Safety problems and countermeasures of electroacupuncture instruments].
abstract: According to the clinical experience and the active role of electroacupuncture instruments in clinical acupuncture and moxibustion, the potential security hazards of the available electroacupuncture instruments are pointed out. These hazards not only can cause injury to a varying degrees for the patient, but also lead to a poor therapeutic effect. The reasons of the security problems are mainly inaccurate regulation parameters, unreasonable displaying parameters, unscientific output of constant voltage, and unqualified protection measures for the electroacupuncture instrument. The countermeasures improving security and the measures increasing the intelligent level of the electroacupuncture instrument are put forward.
authors: Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Electrical Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450002, China. yangyx@zzu.edu.cn
authors: Yu-Xia
authors: YX
authors: Yang
authors: Ming-Chao
authors: MC
authors: Yong
mesh_terms: D015671:Electroacupuncture / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D012449:Safety; D017751:Safety Management / Q000379:methods*