|
KMID : 0363420170310040019
|
|
Journal of Korean Oriental Pediatrics
2017 Volume.31 No. 4 p.19 ~ p.30
|
|
|
Acupuncture for the Treatment of Burns: A Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials and Case Controlled Trials
|
|
Lee Ji-Eun
Jeong Seo-Yoon
Choi Yoo-Min
Jeong Ju-Hui
|
|
|
Abstract
|
|
|
Objectives: The study was conducted to evaluate the acupuncture treatment for burns by reviewing international randomized controlled studies and case controlled studies.
Methods: In the review, ten academic literature archives; NDSL, OASIS, PubMed, Cochrane library, CNKI, WANFANG, CINAHL, J-STAGE, CiNii, and EMBASE were used as the main databases to search for the randomized controlled trials or the case controlled trials about acupuncture treatment of burns using the keywords “burns AND acupuncture”, “burn AND acupuncture”, and “scald AND acupuncture”.
Results: Initially, a total of 852 studies were founded except duplicate studies. 801 studies were excluded after screening of title and abstract. After reviewing 51 papers, a total of four randomized controlled trials and two case controlled trials were selected. These studies were analyzed by year, subjects, treatment intervention, evaluation criteria, treatment effect, adverse events, and ‘Risk of Bias’ assessment for randomized studies and non-randomized studies. From the six papers out of 51 papers those were reviewed, patients with burns were divided into two groups. The experimental group received acupuncture treatment, while the control group did not. The results of the completed studies have shown that the experimental group receiving acupuncture treatment demonstrated significant improvement compared to the control group, and there was no serious adverse events.
Conclusions: According to some of the studies, acupuncture in burn treatment is worth to try. However, additional well-designed randomized controlled studies will be required to justify the effectiveness of acupuncture treatment of burns.
|
|
|
KEYWORD
|
|
|
Burns, Acupuncture, Randomized controlled trial, Case controlled trial, Systematic review
|
|
|
FullTexts / Linksout information
|
|
|
|
|
Listed journal information
|
|
 
|
|