Analgesic effect of acupucture
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- Anaesthesia
- Registration Number
- PACTR201903770607799
- Lead Sponsor
- faculty of medicine suez canal university
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete
- Sex
- Female
- Target Recruitment
- 56
Inclusion Criteria
1- Age between 21-60 years old scheduled for elective abdominal hysterectomy.
2- American society of anaesthesiologist (ASA) physical status I & II
Exclusion Criteria
1-Contraindications of spinal anaesthesia or auricular acupuncture as (infection at the site of puncture, coagulopathy, platelet abnormalities, and concurrent treatment with anticoagulant drugs).
2- Patients known to have allergy or sensitivity to morphine, and / or bupivacaine.
3-Morbid obesity (body mass index (BMI)> 35 Kg/m2).
4- Psychological disease.
5-Narcotic abuse, Prolonged use of sedatives or opioid drug use .
6-Contraindications for Ear acupuncture (infection at the acupuncture site ) .
7-Patient refusal to participate in the study.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method postoperative analgesic requirement
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method blood pressure, heart rate, respiratory rate and oxygen saturation ;Post-operative pain assessed by Visual analog scale; time to the 1st postoperative request of analgesia ;Side effects associated with morphine consumption as nausea, vomiting and over sedation will be recorded;duration of surgery and spinal level