NCT02116218

Assessment of Cancer Pain in Emergency Department in Traditional Chinese Medicine

Assessment of Cancer Pain in Emergency Department in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM): A Study Protocol for a Clinical Trial

• Status: Withdrawn
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 0 (actual)
• Sponsor: Changhua Christian Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Years – 75 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Pain control is a common and serious problem in cancer patients. Although WHO has developed a three-stage model of cancer pain management, 80% cancer patients still suffer moderate to severe pain in their daily life. When patients are with acute exacerbation or aggravate of pain, they usually visit the emergency department for more help. Acupuncture is a safe, low-invasive and economic treatment. And it has been world-wide used as a complementary therapy among patients with cancer. It can not only relieve pain in cancer patients, but also can reduce some of the side effects caused by some treatment. This study is aimed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of acupuncture in cancer patient with acute pain onset through emergency department with objective Traditional Chinese Medicine assessment.

Conditions

• Neoplasms
• Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	acupuncture	Acupuncture in the Hegu (LI4), Shousanli (LI10), Zusanli (ST36), Yanlinquan (GB34), Taichong (LV3) and Ouch point. Needles would be correctly inserted and manually stimulated until the 'De Qi' sensation is elicited. The needles would stay in place for 15 minutes.
PROCEDURE	Vaccaria seed	We put Vaccaria seeds near the acupoints without acupressure as an intervention in control group.

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-03-01
• Primary completion: 2014-12-01
• Completion: 2014-12-01
• First posted: 2014-04-16
• Last updated: 2020-02-17

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Taiwan