Status:
COMPLETED
Auricular Acupuncture for Analgesia During Total Hip Arthroplasty
Lead Sponsor:
University Medicine Greifswald
Collaborating Sponsors:
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Conditions:
Acute Pain
Total Hip Arthroplasty
Eligibility:
All Genders
45-85 years
Phase:
PHASE2
PHASE3
Brief Summary
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
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- 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.
- Surgery time does not exceed 100 minutes.
- Patients without previous opioid medication.
- Patients ranged 45-85 years old.
- Patients who have given informed consent.
Exclusion
- Pregnant or nursing females.
- Recidivist alcoholics.
- Local or systemic infection.
- Age \< 45 and \> 85 years.
- Surgery time more than 100 minutes.
- Intraoperative complications (bleeding, required blood transfusion more than 4 units of packed cells , cardiovascular instability, required catecholamines).
- Patients consumed opioid medication before surgery.
- Patients with prosthetic or damaged cardiac valves.
- Patients who are unable to understand the consent form.
- History of psychiatric disease.
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
June 1 2005
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ESTIMATED
End Date :
June 1 2008
Estimated Enrollment :
360 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT00334165
Start Date
June 1 2005
End Date
June 1 2008
Last Update
February 28 2011
Active Locations (2)
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1
University of Berlin, Campus Charite
Berlin, Germany, 10117
2
Ernst Moritz Arndt University
Greifswald, Germany, 17475