Assessment of Cancer Pain in Emergency Department in Traditional Chinese Medicine

Changhua Christian Medical Foundation

Status: Withdrawn

Conditions: Neoplasms; Pain

Treatments: Procedure: Vaccaria seed; Procedure: acupuncture

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02116218

TCM-2014-ED

Details and patient eligibility

About

Pain control is a common and serious problem in cancer patients. Although WHO has developed a three-stage model of cancer pain management, 80% cancer patients still suffer moderate to severe pain in their daily life. When patients are with acute exacerbation or aggravate of pain, they usually visit the emergency department for more help.

Acupuncture is a safe, low-invasive and economic treatment. And it has been world-wide used as a complementary therapy among patients with cancer. It can not only relieve pain in cancer patients, but also can reduce some of the side effects caused by some treatment.

This study is aimed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of acupuncture in cancer patient with acute pain onset through emergency department with objective Traditional Chinese Medicine assessment.

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 75 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age 20 to 75 years, either gender.
• Visit emergency department
• Chief complaint is pain.
• Diagnosed by oncologist with International Classification of Diseases 9th revision (ICD-9) code between 140.0 to 239.9.

Exclusion criteria

• Serious comorbid conditions (for example, life-threatening condition).
• Patients who cannot communicate reliably with the investigator or who are not likely to obey the instructions of the trial.
• Pregnancy status.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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0 participants in 2 patient groups

acupuncture

Experimental group

Description:

Experimental group would receive acupuncture at specific acupoints for 15 minutes.

Treatment:

Procedure: acupuncture

seed

Sham Comparator group

Description:

Control group would receive another intervention that we would put Vaccaria seeds near the acupoints but without acupressure for the same period.

Treatment:

Procedure: Vaccaria seed