Research progress of acupuncture in enhanced recovery after surgery

The concept of enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) is based on evidence-based medicine. By optimizing the treatment measures, the stress response of the body is reduced to meet the body's metabolic changes during the perioperative period, so as to achieve the purpose of accelerating recovery. In the perioperative period, acupuncture can relieve patients' preoperative anxiety, shorten fasting time, reduce the amount of anesthetics, protect organ function, reduce postoperative pain, reduce postoperative nausea and vomiting, and speed up postoperative recovery. The addition of acupuncture intervention in ERAS would provide newmethods and new ideas for the construction of ERAS. But at present, the application of acupuncture in ERAS has problems such as lacking of overall consideration and insufficient standardization, etc.