The Efficacy and Safety of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) to the Patient With Dizziness in Emergency Department

Not Applicable

Withdrawn

• Conditions: Dizziness
• Interventions: Other: Acupuncture and Fir-Infrared heat-patch attachment; Other: Far-Infrared heat-patch attachment over acupoints without electric current passing.; Other: Acupuncture; Other: Far-Infrared heat-patch attachment

• Registration Number: NCT04415307
• Lead Sponsor: Changhua Christian Hospital

Brief Summary

The study is aimed in patients with persistent dizziness as the chief complaint that is treated with acupuncture or/and far-infrared heat-patch attachment intervention over the acupoints for the purpose of dizziness symptoms treatment. The research hypothesis is that the treatment over acupoints in traditional Chinese medicine is effective in treating symptoms of dizziness.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2020-06-01
• Study First Submitted QC: 2020-06-01
• Study First Posted: 2020-06-04
• Study Start: 2020-12-01
• Status Verified: 2021-08
• Primary Completion: 2021-08-03
• Study Completion: 2021-08-03
• Last Update Submitted: 2021-08-03
• Last Update Posted: 2021-08-09

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: WITHDRAWN
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: Not specified

Inclusion Criteria

1. Patients with age between 20 to 80-year-old who can cooperate to the whole treatment, testing and questionnaire.
2. The chief complaint is dizziness which diagnosed by the doctor in charge of the emergency department, in together to exclude the patients with severe unstable vital signs, and then consult for help with Chinese medicine.
3. Sign the clinical trial agreement sheet.

Exclusion Criteria

1. Inacceptable to the research content
2. Unable to complete the study process
3. Unwilling to cooperate with acupuncture and other treatments
4. Abnormal blood clotting profile
5. With wound or allergy over the treated acupoint
6. Unstable vital sign
7. Post major trauma

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Combination of Acupuncture and Far-Infrared	Acupuncture and Fir-Infrared heat-patch attachment	Acupuncture and Far-Infrared heat-patch attachment over acupoints.
Placebo (no Acupuncture nor Far-Infrared)	Far-Infrared heat-patch attachment over acupoints without electric current passing.	Far-Infrared heat-patch attachment over acupoints without electric current passing.
Acupuncture	Acupuncture	Acupuncture over acupoints.
Far-Infrared	Far-Infrared heat-patch attachment	Far-Infrared heat-patch attachment over acupoints.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Visual Analog Scale (VAS) of dizziness	20 minutes	acupoints intervention of acupuncture or/and Far-Infrared heat-patch attachment