Acupuncture Improves Sleep in Patients Undergoing Cardiopulmonary Bypass

Air Force Military Medical University of People's Liberation Army

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Heart Valve Diseases; Cardiopulmonary Bypass

Treatments: Other: electronic acupuncture

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01231776

20100926

Details and patient eligibility

About

Due to various causes, such as brain impairment, environment changes, anxious,et al. patients, who undergo cardiopulmonary bypass, often suffer from poor quality of sleep. In chinese traditional medicine, acupuncture can improve the quality of sleep in patients with sleeping disorder. But it remains acupuncture could improve the quality of sleep in patients with heart operations.

Full description

60 patients are divided into three groups. control group: no any intervention; experiment group 1: acupuncture are used in patients before cardiac operation; experiment group 2: acupuncture are used through all the course in hospital.

before operation, before discharge, one month after operation, two month after operation, the quality of sleep are evaluated. and comparisons will be made in three groups.

Enrollment: 60 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• aging:18yr--65yr
• cardiopulmonary bypass
• NYHA ≤II and EF≥50%
• not illiterate person

Exclusion criteria

• neurological disease,mentality disorder
• abuse of alcohol
• long history of smoking
• sleep disorder before admitting to hospital

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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60 participants in 3 patient groups

control group

No Intervention group

Treatment:

Other: electronic acupuncture

acupuncture preoperative

Active Comparator group

Description:

acupuncture before operation for one week

Treatment:

Other: electronic acupuncture

acupuncture in hospital

Active Comparator group

Description:

acupuncture all the time in hospital

Treatment:

Other: electronic acupuncture