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Acupuncture Versus Intravenous Morphine in the Management of Acute Pain in the Emergency Department

NCT02460913 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE2 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 300

Last updated 2020-02-21

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Summary

Inadequate pain management is a common problem encountered in ED settings. Pain relief medications use is often limited by their side effects. Evidence suggests that non pharmacologic pain relief techniques such as acupuncture can play a central role to treat pain in acute conditions, but their application is still scarce.

Conditions

  • Acute Pain

Interventions

PROCEDURE

Acupuncture

Acupuncture session of 20 to 30 minutes. Treatment protocols were determined through review of major clinical manuals and textbooks, literature review, and a panel of specialist acupuncturists from Chinese medicine backgrounds.

DRUG

Morphine titration

Patients in this group received IV titrated morphine. Morphine was prepared onsite and diluted in a manner to obtain a dose of 1mg in each ml of normal saline. The initial dose was 0.1 mg per kg and a titration dose of 0.05 mg per Kg was repeated every 5 minutes until reaching objective. The maximum allowed dose was 1.5 mg/kg.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Monastir

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • nouira semir, MD · University of Monastir

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-04-30
Primary Completion
2013-03-31
Completion
2013-03-31

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