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

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

NCT02781415

14/25

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)

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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