The Role of Auricular Point Diagnosis and Treatment in ERAS During TKA

Peking Union Medical College

Status: Completed

Conditions: Arthroplasty, Replacement, Knee; Auriculotherapy; Enhanced Recovery After Surgery

Treatments: Other: Auriculotherapy

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06273488

EXZL20240002

Details and patient eligibility

About

To further improve the surgical outcomes of patients undergoing total knee arthroplasty (TKA). This study aims to use ear acupoint therapy to address the following clinical issues: 1 The degree of postoperative inflammation and edema in the patient; 2. Patient pain; 3. Patient functional recovery. 4. Surgical scar repair for patients; 5. Patient perioperative anxiety and postoperative satisfaction. Exploring the safety and effectiveness of ear acupoint therapy in the postoperative application of TKA, leveraging the advantages of suitable traditional Chinese medicine techniques in simplicity, convenience, effectiveness, and cost-effectiveness, and further improving the ERAS Chinese and Western medicine collaborative plan for TKA.

Enrollment: 116 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 50 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Age 50-80 years old, no gender limit;

2. Meet the late diagnostic criteria for knee osteoarthritis and meet the surgical indications for TKA;

3. The patient's auricles of both ears are intact

4. The subject/guardian makes it clear that the patient will choose to go to a medical consortium hospital for standardized medical treatment after surgery.

   Repeat treatment.

5. Subjects/guardians can understand the purpose of the trial and show sufficient compliance with the trial protocol,and signed the informed consent form (ICF).

Exclusion criteria

1. Suffering from severe arrhythmia, heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, epilepsy, mental illness sick;
2. The patient's ears are damaged, red, swollen, bleeding, infected, etc. and have contraindications that are not suitable for auricular acupoint diagnosis and treatment.
3. Patients with knee varus >15° or valgus before surgery;
4. Other circumstances in which the researcher deems it inappropriate to participate in this clinical trial.

Trial design

116 participants in 2 patient groups

Auriculotherapy intervention group

Treatment:

Other: Auriculotherapy

Control group