Acupuncture for Pain Control After Ambulatory Knee Arthroscopy
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
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
Treatments tested in this trial
- Acupuncture
Treatment groups
60 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groupsSponsors and collaborators
Source ClinicalTrials.gov