Auricular Acupuncture for Analgesia During Total Hip Arthroplasty

University Medicine Greifswald

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 3; Phase 2

Conditions: Total Hip Arthroplasty; Acute Pain

Treatments: Procedure: Auricular acupuncture (procedure)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00334165

III UV 13/05

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim is to investigate whether auricular acupuncture is superior to sham acupuncture in relief of acute pain and in reduction of analgesics in patients during total hip arthroplasty

Enrollment: 360 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 45 to 85 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Patients with an American Society of Anesthesiologists physical status of I to III scheduled for elective hip arthroplasty because of degenerative osteoarthritis under general anesthesia.
2. Surgery time does not exceed 100 minutes.
3. Patients without previous opioid medication.
4. Patients ranged 45-85 years old.
5. Patients who have given informed consent.

Exclusion criteria

1. Pregnant or nursing females.
2. Recidivist alcoholics.
3. Local or systemic infection.
4. Age < 45 and > 85 years.
5. Surgery time more than 100 minutes.
6. Intraoperative complications (bleeding, required blood transfusion more than 4 units of packed cells , cardiovascular instability, required catecholamines).
7. Patients consumed opioid medication before surgery.
8. Patients with prosthetic or damaged cardiac valves.
9. Patients who are unable to understand the consent form.
10. History of psychiatric disease.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind