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

NACompletedINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

95

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

November 30, 2013

Primary Completion Date

June 8, 2017

Study Completion Date

August 23, 2017

Conditions
Tonsillitis
Interventions
OTHER

Auricular acupuncture

The ear will be cleaned with alcohol prior to insertion of the needles. Five sterile, single-use, gold needles will be placed in each ear according to the figure below. The needles penetrate about a millimeter (or 4/100ths of an inch) into the skin.

Trial Locations (1)

28310

Womack Army Medical Center, Fort Bragg

All Listed Sponsors
lead

Defense and Veterans Center for Integrative Pain Management

OTHER

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