Status:
UNKNOWN
Acupuncture for Pain Control After Ambulatory Knee Arthroscopy
Lead Sponsor:
University Medicine Greifswald
Conditions:
Postoperative Pain; Knee Arthroscopy; Acupuncture
Eligibility:
All Genders
19-55 years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
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) Desi...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- 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)
- Patients who have given written informed consent
Exclusion
- 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
- Surgery time more than 80 minutes
- Intraoperative complications (bleeding, required blood transfusion more than 6 units of packed cells, cardiovascular instability, required catecholamines)
- Patients who consumed opioid medication at least 6 months before surgery
- Patients who are unable to understand the consent form or to fill in the study questionnaire.
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
February 1 2019
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ESTIMATED
End Date :
December 31 2022
Estimated Enrollment :
60 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT04134702
Start Date
February 1 2019
End Date
December 31 2022
Last Update
January 11 2021
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University Medicine of Greifswald
Greifswald, Vorpommern, Germany, 17475