Auriculotherapy for Prevention of Postoperative Urinary Retention (RUPO)

Hopital Foch

Status: Completed

Conditions: Analgesia, Epidural

Treatments: Procedure: Control; Procedure: Treated; Procedure: Intra-venous anesthesia

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02290054

2013-A01396-39 (Other Identifier)

2013/41

Details and patient eligibility

About

Urinary retention is a common complication of epidural analgesia. Auriculotherapy could prevent this complication. This study will be performed among men receiving thoracic epidural analgesia after thoracic surgery.

Enrollment: 53 patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 18 to 85 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• patients scheduled to a lung surgical procedure and thoracic epidural analgesia

Exclusion criteria

• Abnormalities of the external ear
• Dialysis or end stage renal failure
• Abnormal urinary tract
• Incapacity to self assessment of comfort and anxiety,
• Contra-indication to total intravenous anesthesia

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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53 participants in 2 patient groups

Control

Sham Comparator group

Description:

A thoracic epidural catheter is inserted first. Then total intra-venous anesthesia is performed. Implementation of adhesive pads on the ears is performed while the patient is sleeping but before thoracic incision.

Treatment:

Procedure: Intra-venous anesthesia

Procedure: Control

Treated

Experimental group

Description:

A thoracic epidural catheter is inserted first. Then total intra-venous anesthesia is performed. Auriculotherapy is performed while the patient is sleeping but before thoracic incision. Auriculotherapy uses semi-permanent needles and implementation of adhesive pads to mask the needles.

Treatment:

Procedure: Treated

Procedure: Intra-venous anesthesia