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Auricular Acupuncture for Pain Relief After Ambulatory Knee Arthroscopy

NCT00233857 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE2/PHASE3 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 120

Last updated 2011-02-28

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The aim was to investigate whether auricular acupuncture is superior to sham acupuncture in relief of acute postoperative pain and in reduction of analgesics consumption on demand and their side effects in patients after ambulatory knee arthroscopy

Conditions

  • Postoperative Pain

Interventions

PROCEDURE

Auricular acupuncture

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University Medicine Greifswald

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Taras I. Usichenko, Assistant Professor · Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine Department, Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald, Germany

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
16 Years
Max Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2003-08-31
Primary Completion
2004-07-31
Completion
2004-08-31

Countries

  • Germany

Study Locations

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