Efficacy of Electroacupuncture on Acute Abdomen Emergency Care
Efficacy of Electroacupuncture on Acute Abdomen Emergency Care
Contrast to conventional Western medicine, traditional Chinese medicine is the most common
 used therapy of complementary and alternative medicine. Taiwan inherits traditional Chinese
 culture, and the people popularly accept traditional Chinese medicine for general diseases.
 However, most patients with acute or critical illness are used to admit to emergency
 department for medical services, and then transfer to the department of related specialist
 for further treatment. During the course of staying at emergent observation room, some
 diseases do not meet the criteria of admission and keep for evaluation. The longer of staying
 at emergent observation room the more waste medical resources.

 The Chinese medicine department of Changhua Christian hospital has treated patients, who
 consulted us at their own dispense, with subjective discomfort but remained at the emergent
 observation room. Detailed contents of this study include the Chinese and Western medicine,
 pharmaceutical, nursing cooperation mode, monitoring clinical effect of treating of the
 patients diagnosed with intestinal obstruction or ileus who complain about nausea, vomiting,
 abdominal pain, abdominal distension or constipation.And the patients were assigned to the
 control and treatment group. Then we give the treatment group with the electroacupuncture
 treatment,and the control groupe with the Chinese medicine seeds and the transcutaneous nerve
 stimulation (no power).The patients were diagnosed with objective analysis of tongue
 diagnosis, pulse diagnosis, heart rate variability, and questionnaire of pain. Hope that we
 can assess the efficacy of both two different treatment,and also assess the cost of medical
 care, and try to complete the syndromes statistical analysis of traditional Chinese medicine
 for abdominal pain, building the relevance of Chinese medicine physical assessment teaching
 and clinical efficacy.

 The most important of this clinical teaching is that, this is a good opportunity for Chinese
 medicine and Western medicine to cooperate with each other at the emergency department to
 confirm the efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine, not only in the field of chronic or
 geriatric diseases, but also in the field of emergency with the evidence base. This factually
 achieves communication and integration of Chinese and Western medicine, and benefits the
 public.
Inclusion Criteria:

 1. Patients 20-90 years old,who accepted to enter this trial

 2. The patients diagnosed with intestinal obstruction or ileus who complain about nausea,
 vomiting, abdominal pain, abdominal distension or constipation.

 3. ICD-10 is R101-R1012

 Exclusion Criteria:

 Does not meet the above conditions