Electric Acupuncture for ICU-acquired Weakness in Mechanical Ventilation Patients (EA-ICUAW)

Jiangsu Province Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Respiratory Failure; Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome; Sepsis

Treatments: Other: conservative; Device: electric acupuncture

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02204215

EA-ICUAW

Details and patient eligibility

About

Intensive care unit acquired weakness (ICU-AW) is common and dramatically affect recovery. The purpose of this study is to determine whether electric acupuncture therapy is effective in the treatment of ICU-AW especially in the patients receiving mechanical ventilation with sepsis or multiorgan system failure.

Full description

The principle of acupuncture is to produce bioelectric current, as a consequence, to invigorate the circulation, promote tissue regeneration, relieve pain, enhance the immune function, etc. And electric acupuncture can stimulate bioelectricity activities at acupoints, out of reach for ordinary acupuncture effect, especially in the fields of nerve/muscle recovery and regeneration.

Enrollment: 40 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Clinical diagnosis of sepsis or multiple organ dysfunction syndrome
• Within 48 hours from the initiation of mechanical ventilation

Exclusion criteria

• Pregnant patients
• Neuromuscular disease or cerebrovascular accident
• With temporary or permanent pacemaker
• Need to use neuromuscular blocking agents
• Inactivity for more than 5 days before ICU admission

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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40 participants in 1 patient group

electric acupuncture & conservative

Experimental group

Description:

Electric acupuncture therapy on four limbs 30 min each time, twice per day; or conservative treatment without electric acupuncture.

Treatment:

Device: electric acupuncture

Other: conservative