Acupuncture Versus Titrated Morphine in Patients With Renal Colic

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2016-06-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The aim of this study is to compare the clinical efficacy and safety profiles of a 30 minutes acupuncture session performed at an ER of a tertiary hospital versus titrated intravenous morphine in the management of acute severe pain syndromes (defined as a visual analogue scale (VAS) score >/= 70) taking for example acute renal colic.

• Phase: Phase 3
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: University of Monastir
• Treatments: Morphine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• age > 18 years old

• Presenting with acute non complicated renal colic

• Baseline VAS score >/= 70

Exclusion Criteria:

• complicated renal colic

• VAS score < 70

• Pain of traumatic origin

• Coagulation abnormalities

• Skin affections impairing the use of pre-specified insertion points

• Enable to use the VAS

• Patients who received analgesics less than 6 hours prior to enrollment

• Patients refusing or enable to give written informed consent

• Pregnant women