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Acupuncture and Post-Surgical Wound Healing

NCT00260494 · Status: TERMINATED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 65

Last updated 2013-07-23

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine if acupuncture improves wound healing. Since we, the investigators at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), know that how much oxygen is delivered to tissue is the best predictor of how well a wound will heal, we are measuring changes in tissue oxygen of wounds before and after acupuncture treatments. We are focusing on the leg wounds of coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) patients who have their saphenous veins harvested in an open fashion since this is a fairly well controlled patient model.

Conditions

  • Postoperative Complications
  • Surgical Wound Infection
  • Surgical Wound Dehiscence

Interventions

OTHER

acupuncture

standardized acupuncture intended to improve blood flow and reduce edema to lower extremity.

OTHER

sham acupuncture

standardized sham acupuncture at same sites as acupuncture.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Harriet W Hopf, MD · University of California, San Francisco

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
QUADRUPLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2005-03-31
Primary Completion
2006-07-31
Completion
2006-07-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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