NCT03199495

Efficacy of Electroacupuncture on Acute Abdomen Emergency Care

Completed NA Last updated 18 February 2019

What this trial tests

NA trial testing electroacupuncture in Acupuncture in 60 participants. Completed in 16 April 2018.

Timeline

17 April 2017

Primary endpoint
16 April 2018

16 April 2018

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	Changhua Christian Hospital
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	double
Primary purpose	treatment
Enrollment	60
Start date	17 April 2017
Primary completion	16 April 2018
Estimated completion	16 April 2018
Sites	1 location across Taiwan

Drugs / interventions tested

• electroacupuncture

Conditions studied

• Acupuncture — all drugs for Acupuncture →

Sponsor

Changhua Christian Hospital

Who can join

Adults 20 to 90, any sex, with Acupuncture. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

Contrast to conventional Western medicine, traditional Chinese medicine is the most common used therapy of complementary and alternative medicine. Taiwan inherits traditional Chinese culture, and the people popularly accept traditional Chinese medicine for general diseases. However, most patients with acute or critical illness are used to admit to emergency department for medical services, and then transfer to the department of related specialist for further treatment. During the course of staying at emergent observation room, some diseases do not meet the criteria of admission and keep for evaluation. The longer of staying at emergent observation room the more waste medical resources.

The Chinese medicine department of Changhua Christian hospital has treated patients, who consulted us at their own dispense, with subjective discomfort but remained at the emergent observation room. Detailed contents of this study include the Chinese and Western medicine, pharmaceutical, nursing cooperation mode, monitoring clinical effect of treating of the patients diagnosed with intestinal obstruction or ileus who complain about nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, abdominal distension or constipation.And the patients were assigned to the control and treatment group. Then we give the treatment group with the electroacupuncture treatment,and the control groupe with the Chinese medicine seeds and the transcutaneous nerve stimulation (no power).The patients were diagnosed with objective analysis of tongue diagnosis, pulse diagnosis, heart rate variability, and questionnaire of pain. Hope that we can assess the efficacy of both two different treatment,and also assess the cost of medical care, and try to complete the syndromes statistical analysis of traditional Chinese medicine for abdominal pain, building the relevance of Chinese medicine physical assessment teaching and clinical efficacy.

The most important of this clinical teaching is that, this is a good opportunity for Chinese medicine and Western medicine to cooperate with each other at the emergency department to confirm the efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine, not only in the field of chronic or geriatric diseases, but also in the field of emergency with the evidence base. This factually achieves communication and integration of Chinese and Western medicine, and benefits the public.

Publications & conference data

1 peer-reviewed publication reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):

1. Efficacy of electroacupuncture on acute abdomen emergency care: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.
   Chang YY, Chiu CW, Chen CY, Chang CF, et al · · 2020 · cited 2× · PMID 32093785 · DOI 10.1186/s13063-020-4071-3