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Auricular Acupuncture for Pain Relief After Ambulatory Knee Arthroscopy

U

University Medicine Greifswald

Status and phase

Completed
Phase 3
Phase 2

Conditions

Postoperative Pain

Treatments

Procedure: Auricular acupuncture

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT00233857
III UV 23/03

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim was to investigate whether auricular acupuncture is superior to sham acupuncture in relief of acute postoperative pain and in reduction of analgesics consumption on demand and their side effects in patients after ambulatory knee arthroscopy

Sex

All

Ages

16 to 65 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  1. Patients with an American Society of Anesthesiologists physical status of I to II scheduled for ambulatory knee arthroscopy under general anesthesia.
  2. Surgery time does not exceed 60 minutes.
  3. Patients without previous opioid and/or psychiatric medication.
  4. Patients ranged 16-65 years old.
  5. Patients able to use Visual Analogue Scale-100 for pain intensity measurement.
  6. Patients who have given informed consent.

Exclusion criteria

  1. Pregnant or nursing females.
  2. Recidivist alcoholics and/or patients with history of psychiatric disease.
  3. Local or systemic infection.
  4. Age < 16 and > 65 years.
  5. Surgery time more than 60 minutes.
  6. Inability to use Visual Analogue Scale-100.
  7. Patients consumed opioid medication before surgery.
  8. Patients with prosthetic or damaged cardiac valves (s. Potential risks)
  9. Patients who are unable to understand the consent form.

Trial design

Primary purpose

Treatment

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

Double Blind

Trial contacts and locations

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