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Efficacy and safety of acupuncture for dizziness and vertigo in emergency department: a pilot cohort study

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies, June 2015
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Title
Efficacy and safety of acupuncture for dizziness and vertigo in emergency department: a pilot cohort study
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BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies, June 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12906-015-0704-6
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Chih-Wen Chiu, Tsung-Chieh Lee, Po-Chi Hsu, Chia-Yun Chen, Shun-Chang Chang, John. Y. Chiang, Lun-Chien Lo

Abstract

Dizziness and vertigo account for roughly 4% of chief symptoms in the emergency department (ED). Pharmacological therapy is often applied for these symptoms, such as vestibular suppressants, anti-emetics and benzodiazepines. However, every medication is accompanied with unavoidable side-effects. There are several research articles providing evidence of acupuncture treating dizziness and vertigo but few studies of acupuncture as an emergent intervention in ED. We performed a pilot cohort study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of acupuncture in treating patients with dizziness and vertigo in ED. A total of 60 participants, recruited in ED, were divided into acupuncture and control group. Life-threatening conditions or central nervous system disorders were excluded to ensure participants' safety. The clinical effect of treating dizziness and vertigo was evaluated by performing statistical analyses on data collected from questionnaires of Dizziness Handicap Inventory (DHI), Visual Analog Scale (VAS) of dizziness and vertigo, and heart rate variability (HRV). The variation of VAS demonstrated a significant decrease (p-value: 0.001 and p-value: 0.037) between two groups after two different durations: 30 mins and 7 days. The variation of DHI showed no significant difference after 7 days. HRV revealed a significant increase in high frequency (HF) in the acupuncture group. No adverse event was reported in this study. Acupuncture demonstrates a significant immediate effect in reducing discomforts and VAS of both dizziness and vertigo. This study provides clinical evidence on the efficacy and safety of acupuncture to treat dizziness and vertigo in the emergency department. ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT02358239 . Registered 5 February 2015.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Korea, Republic of 1 <1%
Unknown 147 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 28 19%
Student > Bachelor 27 18%
Researcher 12 8%
Other 11 7%
Student > Postgraduate 11 7%
Other 25 17%
Unknown 34 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 54 36%
Nursing and Health Professions 30 20%
Psychology 7 5%
Social Sciences 3 2%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 1%
Other 14 9%
Unknown 38 26%
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#1,751,951
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#299
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#21,722
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Outputs of similar age from BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies
#4
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