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Acupuncture for Pain Control After Ambulatory Knee Arthroscopy

ConditionPostoperative Pain; Knee Arthroscopy; Acupuncture
Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age19-55
SponsorUniversity Medicine Greifswald

About this trial

Aim of the study: To investigate whether acupuncture with indwelling fixed needles reduces pain and analgesic requirement and foster mobilization in patients after arthroscopic knee surgery (AKS) Design: Prospective pilot investigation with non-randomized arm Number of patients: N = 60 (30 patients with acupuncture additional to standard pain treatment (SPT) vs. 30 patients with SPT only Inclusion criteria: Adult patients scheduled to elective AKS in general anaesthesia with \< 80 min. duration Without previous opioid and psychotropic medication Given informed consentOutcome measures: Postoperative analgesic requirement; Pain intensity; Incidence of side effects; Physiological parameters; Mobilization score

Eligibility criteria

This trial accepts healthy volunteers

Qualifiers

Patients with an American Society of Anesthesiologists physical status of I to II scheduled for elective ambulatory arthroscopic knee surgery under standardized general anesthesia

Surgery time does not exceed 80 minutes

Patients without previous opioid and psychotropic medication

Patients aged between 19 and 55 years, able to fill in the study questionnaire (Appendix F)

Disqualifiers

Current psychiatric disease

Local skin infection at the sites of acupuncture

Aged < 19 or > 55 years

Failure to follow the standardized schema of general anaesthesia

Trial design

Design model

Parallel

Treatments tested in this trial

  • Acupuncture

    Other intervention

    Acupuncture and ear acupuncture using indwelling fixed needles, that will remained in situ several days after surgery until the patients will experience pain

Treatment groups

60 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groups
Group A: AcupunctureExperimental treatment 1 intervention
Group B: No interventionNo intervention 0 interventions

Trial outcomes

Primary outcomes

1

Analgesic requirement

Total dose of ibuprofen taken by the patient during 10 days after arthroscopic knee surgery

Time frame
10 days

Secondary outcomes

1

Pain intensity: verbal rating scale

Pain intensity measured using verbal rating scale from 0=no pain to 10=maximal pain

Time frame
10 days after surgery
2

Side affects

Incidence of analgesic induced side effects

Time frame
10 days after surgery

Other outcomes

Sponsors and contacts

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University Medicine Greifswald

Lead sponsor

Source ClinicalTrials.gov
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