Clinical trialNCT02571075CompletedInterventional

Battlefield Auricular Acupuncture During Adult Tonsillectomies and Effect of Post op Pain and Nausea

SponsorDefense and Veterans Center for Integrative Pain ManagementEnrollment95Tonsillitis

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Summary

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The purpose of this study is to determine if auricular acupuncture significantly reduces post-operative pain in comparison to the standard of care. Post-operative pain score will be collected by subject self-report of pain according to the Numerical Rating Scale (NRS) (0= no pain, 10 = worst imaginable pain) up to 10 days post-operation.

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Investigators

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Anthony R Plunkett, MD
Womack Army Medical Center Fort Bragg
Principal Investigator
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Sites

1 registered facility, with the per-site recruitment status where the registry publishes one. ClinicalTrials.gov does not publish per-site enrollment counts.

United States

Womack Army Medical Center
Fort Bragg, North Carolina, United States

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Drugs studied

No drug or biological interventions are in our data for this study. It may test a procedure, device or behavioral intervention, or the intervention list isn't in our current snapshot. See the registry record ↗. Why? →

Registration & key dates

Registry attributes as recorded on the ClinicalTrials.gov study record.

Start: 30 Nov 2013
Primary completion: 8 Jun 2017
Completion: 23 Aug 2017
Last update posted: 9 Jun 2020
Registered enrollment: 95
Registry id: NCT02571075

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