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- Title
Acupuncture and Traditional Herbal Medicine Therapy Prevent Deliriumin Patients with Cardiovascular Disease in Intensive Care Units.
- Authors
Matsumoto-Miyazaki, Jun; Ushikoshi, Hiroaki; Miyata, Shusaku; Miyazaki, Nagisa; Nawa, Takahide; Okada, Hideshi; Ojio, Shinsuke; Ogura, Shinji; Minatoguchi, Shinya
- Abstract
The aim of this study was to determine the effect of combination therapy consisting of acupuncture and traditional herbal medicine (Kampo medicine) for reducing the incidence rate of delirium in patients with cardiovascular (CV) disease in ICUs. Twenty-nine patients who had been urgently admitted to the ICU in the control period were treated with conventional intensive care. Thirty patients in the treatment period received conventional therapy plus a combination therapy consisting of acupuncture and herbal medicine. Acupuncture treatment was performed once a day, and the herbal formula was administered orally three times a day during the first week of the ICU stay. The standard acupuncture points were GV20, Ex-HN3, HT7, LI4, Liv3, and KI3, and the main herbal preparation was Kamikihito. The incident rates of delirium, assessed using the confusion assessment method for ICU, in the treatment and control period were compared. The incidence rate of delirium was significantly lower in the treatment group than in the control group (6.6% vs. 37.9%, ). Moreover, sedative drugs and non-pharmacological approaches against aggressive behavior of patients who were delirious were used less in the treatment group than in the control group. No serious adverse events were observed in the treatment group. Combination therapy consisting of acupuncture and herbal medicine was found to be effective in lowering the incidence of delirium in patients with CV disease in ICUs. Further studies with a large sample size and parallel randomized controlled design would be required to establish the effects of this therapy.
- Subjects
JAPAN; CARDIOVASCULAR disease treatment; AGGRESSION (Psychology); ACUPUNCTURE; ACUPUNCTURE points; ALTERNATIVE medicine; APACHE (Disease classification system); CHI-squared test; CRITICAL care medicine; DELIRIUM; FISHER exact test; HERBAL medicine; INTENSIVE care units; LONGITUDINAL method; ASIAN medicine; ORAL drug administration; PROBABILITY theory; RESEARCH funding; PILOT projects; STATISTICAL significance; INTEGRATIVE medicine; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; MANN Whitney U Test; THERAPEUTICS; PREVENTION
- Publication
American Journal of Chinese Medicine, 2017, Vol 45, Issue 2, p255
- ISSN
0192-415X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1142/S0192415X17500161