NCT01231776

Acupuncture Improves Sleep in Patients Undergoing Cardiopulmonary Bypass

Study of Acupuncture of Traditional Chinese Medicine

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Xijing Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Due to various causes, such as brain impairment, environment changes, anxious,et al. patients, who undergo cardiopulmonary bypass, often suffer from poor quality of sleep. In chinese traditional medicine, acupuncture can improve the quality of sleep in patients with sleeping disorder. But it remains acupuncture could improve the quality of sleep in patients with heart operations.

Detailed description

60 patients are divided into three groups. control group: no any intervention; experiment group 1: acupuncture are used in patients before cardiac operation; experiment group 2: acupuncture are used through all the course in hospital. before operation, before discharge, one month after operation, two month after operation, the quality of sleep are evaluated. and comparisons will be made in three groups.

Conditions

• Heart Valve Diseases
• Cardiopulmonary Bypass

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	electronic acupuncture	applying a stimula on neiguang and shenmen through electronic acupuncture

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-09-01
• Primary completion: 2011-01-01
• Completion: 2011-02-01
• First posted: 2010-11-01
• Last updated: 2011-02-23

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: China