NCT04118881

Ear Acupuncture Preventing Delayed Gastric Emptying.

Preoperative Ear Acupuncture to Prevent Delayed Gastric Emptying After Pancreatoduodenectomy.A Single-center Prospective Randomized Controlled Clinical Study.

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 180 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 75 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Pancreatoduodenectomy is the preferred surgical method for periampullary diseases. The most common complication is gastric emptying disorder, which often greatly affects the quality of life of patients and prolongs the length of hospitalization. There are few reports on the treatment of gastric emptying disorder with single method, poor continuity of curative effect and low level of evidence. This study is to explore the clinical efficacy and safety of ear acupuncture in the prevention and treatment of DGE after pancreaticoduodenal surgery. This study is divided into two parts. The first part is to study the clinical efficacy and safety of auricular acupoint embedding in preventing gastric emptying disorder after pancreaticoduodenectomy. The second part is to study the clinical efficacy and safety of electroacupuncture in treating gastric emptying disorder.

Conditions

• Auricular Acupoint Embedding
• Pancreaticoduodenectomy
• Delayed Gastric Emptying

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Ear Acupuncture	Auricular Acupuncture (AA) is a micro-system of acupuncture and moxibustion initiated by Chinese and French doctors. All acupoints are distributed in the ear. In the treatment of perioperative patients, ear needle is far away from the surgical wound and its minimally invasive and tolerable position has obvious advantages over body needle.AA can regulate the function of corresponding organs at acupoints. The theoretical basis of TCM is holistic concept and syndrome differentiation and treatment.AA can prevent and treat perioperative nausea and vomiting. A number of randomized controlled trials and retrospective studies have confirmed that AA has obvious advantages in preventing nausea and vomiting in perioperative period compared with routine prevention, and its possible mechanism is ear-directed stimulation of the ear branch of vagus nerve, thereby enhancing gastrointestinal motility and accelerating gastric emptying.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-10-10
• Primary completion: 2021-08-02
• Completion: 2021-12-02
• First posted: 2019-10-08
• Last updated: 2019-10-08

Locations

1 site across 1 country: China