The Effectiveness of Acupressure on Reducing Pain and Improving Gastrointestinal Function After Laparoscopic Surgery

Postoperative Pain Clinical Trial

Official title:

Explore the Effectiveness of Acupressure on Reducing Pain and Improving Gastrointestinal Function of Patients After Laparoscopic Surgery

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Not yet recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05360173
• Other study ID #: DMR-111-166
• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: June 16, 2022
• Est. completion date: December 31, 2022

Study information

• Verified date: May 2022
• Source: China Medical University Hospital
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The purpose of the study is to explore the effect if acupressure reducing pain after laparoscopic surgery. The study is designed as an experimental research with repeat measurement design. The patients who are eligible for laparoscopic for general surgery and colorectal surgery in a medical center in the central part of Taiwan. The intervention of the research starts from the first date of postoperative day and the patient has the postoperative pain. The participant will be randomized into experimental group and control group. These two groups will be given true acupressure and sham acupressure twice daily. The participant will be observation the postoperative pain and postoperative recovery.

Description:

Laparoscopic is increasing in this decade. The surgical trauma caused postoperative pain which cannot be avoid. It is the significant challenge and the thorny issue of the healthcare providers, also, be discussed for many decades. Several clinical researches have been verified acupuncture and related method have been as adjuvant efficacy treatment for decreasing postoperative pain. Acupressure is the method of the thumb put acupoint, and therapeutic effectiveness is similar to acupuncture. Acupressure is allowed to a nurse work independently due to noninvasive treatment. However, the less of the clinical studies explore the efficacy of acupressure reducing the postoperative pain after laparoscopic. The result of the research will provide the efficacy of reducing postoperative laparoscopic pain and wish to improve the quality of care.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Enrollment: 86
• Est. completion date: December 31, 2022
• Est. primary completion date: December 1, 2022
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 20 Years to 80 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• laparoscopic surgery on the organ of liver, gastric, small intestine, colon under general anaethesia

• the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) :I - III

• above 20 years old

• the state of consciousness is alert

• Chinese or Taiwanese speaker

Exclusion Criteria:

• surgical procedure: resection, low anterior resection, Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass and Whipple procedure (pancreaticoduodenectomy)

• postoperative length of hospital stay less than 3 days

• patient have pregnant, maternity, breastfeeding, chronic pain history, coagulation disorder or skin injury on the acupoints.

• drug abuse, alcoholism

• Patient-controlled analgesia

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Pain, Postoperative
• Postoperative Pain

Intervention

Behavioral:
• acupressure
The researcher use thumb and put about 3 kilogram on four acupoints where locating on the patient's arm and leg.
• sham acupressure
The researcher use thumb and put about 3 kilogram on four acupoints where locating at about 3 cm next to the acupoint on the patient's arm and leg.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
China Medical University Hospital

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Postoperative pain intensity	Visual Analog Scale (VAS) of pain is used to measure the pain intensity. The scale of 0 = no pain and 10 = the worst pain, is a 10 cm scale marked in cm. The higher scores means the worse outcome.	3 days
Primary	The quality of postoperative pain	The short-form McGill Pain Questionnaire (SF-MPQ) is used to measure the quality of pain. The Chinese version is used that consists of 16 descriptors (12 sensory; 4 affective) which rated 0 = none, 1 = mild, 2 = moderate or 3 = severe, and Present Pain Intensity (PPI) and a visual analogue scale (VAS). The higher score means the worse outcome.	3 days
Primary	medication consumption	The data is recorded from the patient chart about the drugs consumption after surgery. That is included opioid, non-steroidal anti-Inflammatory drugs, prokinetic agent and anti-flatulence drugs. The more medications are used mean the worse outcome.	3 days
Secondary	Times of exhaust air	The data is recorded by ask the patient whether they have exhaust air or not after intervention. If the patient has exhaust air after the intervention, means the good outcome.	3 days
Secondary	recovery of bowel movement	The stethoscope is used to listen to the bowel sound, which will be measured by the researcher. The bowel sound increase means the good outcome.	3 days
Secondary	Timing of first flatus	asking the patient the timing of the first flatus after surgery, time is the shorter the better	3 days
Secondary	postoperative length of stay	recording from the chart, time is the shorter the better	Postoperative day to discharge (about 5-7 days)