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Randomized Controlled Trial of a Special Acupuncture Technique for Pain after Thoracotomy
- Publication Year :
- 2008
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Abstract
- Objective We sought to determine whether an acupuncture technique specially developed for a surgical oncology population (intervention) reduces pain or analgesic use after thoracotomy compared with a sham acupuncture technique (control). Methods One hundred sixty-two patients with cancer undergoing thoracotomy were randomized to group A (preoperative implantation of small intradermal needles that were retained for 4 weeks) or group B (preoperative placement of sham needles at the same schedule). The numeric rating scale of pain and total opioid use was evaluated during the in-patient stay, and the Brief Pain Inventory and Medication Quantification Scale were evaluated after discharge up to 3 months after the operation. Results The principal analysis, a comparison of Brief Pain Inventory pain intensity scores at the 30-day follow-up, showed no significant difference between the intervention and control groups. Pain scores were marginally higher in the intervention group (0.05; 95% confidence interval, 0.74 to −0.64; P = .9). There were also no statistically significant differences between groups for secondary end points, including chronic pain assessments at 60 and 90 days, in-patient pain, and medication use in the hospital and after discharge. Conclusion A special acupuncture technique, as provided in this study, did not reduce pain or use of pain medication after thoracotomy more than a sham technique.
- Subjects :
- Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
China
medicine.medical_treatment
Analgesic
Population
Acupuncture Therapy
Article
law.invention
Randomized controlled trial
law
Neoplasms
Acupuncture
Medicine
Humans
Pain Management
Single-Blind Method
Thoracotomy
Acupuncture Analgesia
Brief Pain Inventory
education
Aged
Pain Measurement
Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic
education.field_of_study
Pain, Postoperative
Physician-Patient Relations
business.industry
Chronic pain
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
Confidence interval
Surgery
Analgesics, Opioid
Anesthesia
Female
business
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....e857b2110d26bcd8d30c5f3c02cda45f