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Acupuncture Versus Titrated Morphine in Patients With Renal Colic (AcuRC)

U

University of Monastir

Status and phase

Completed
Phase 3

Conditions

Renal Colic

Treatments

Drug: Morphine Titration
Procedure: Traditional Acupuncture Session

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study is to compare the clinical efficacy and safety profiles of a 30 minutes acupuncture session performed at an ER of a tertiary hospital versus titrated intravenous morphine in the management of acute severe pain syndromes (defined as a visual analogue scale (VAS) score >/= 70) taking for example acute renal colic.

Full description

acupuncture session performed at an ER of a tertiary hospital versus titrated intravenous morphine in the management of acute severe pain syndromes (defined as a visual analogue scale (VAS) score >/= 70) taking for example acute renal colic.

Enrollment

200 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • age > 18 years old
  • Presenting with acute non complicated renal colic
  • Baseline VAS score >/= 70

Exclusion criteria

  • complicated renal colic
  • VAS score < 70
  • Pain of traumatic origin
  • Coagulation abnormalities
  • Skin affections impairing the use of pre-specified insertion points
  • Enable to use the VAS
  • Patients who received analgesics less than 6 hours prior to enrollment
  • Patients refusing or enable to give written informed consent
  • Pregnant women

Trial design

Primary purpose

Treatment

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

None (Open label)

200 participants in 2 patient groups

Acupuncture
Experimental group
Description:
Traditional Acupuncture Session:Patients in this group will benefit from a 30 minutes acupuncture session made by an experimented physician.
Treatment:
Procedure: Traditional Acupuncture Session
Titrated Morphine
Active Comparator group
Description:
Morphine Titration:Patients will receive an intravenous titration of morphine by a qualified nurse.
Treatment:
Drug: Morphine Titration

Trial contacts and locations

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