• Chun-Ting Liu, Ting-Min Hsieh, Fu-Yuan Shih, Wei-Hung Lai, Ching-Hua Hsieh, Bei-Yu Wu, and Yung-Hsiang Chen.
• Department of Chinese Medicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
• Medicine (Baltimore). 2021 Dec 30; 100 (52): e28367e28367.

BackgroundMajor trauma is the leading cause of death in the young population. The inflammatory and anti-inflammatory responses are associated with posttraumatic morbidity and mortality; however, it is not fully clear how to reestablish the homeostasis in patients with major trauma.MethodsThis study will be a prospective, randomized, placebo-controlled, partially double-blinded, three-armed trial. One hundred eighty participants diagnosed with major trauma will be randomly assigned to an electroacupuncture (EA), a laser acupuncture (LA), or a sham laser acupuncture group in a 1:1:1 ratio. All participants will undergo EA, LA, or sham laser acupuncture intervention once a day on 5 acupoints (LI4, PC6, ST36, SP6, and EX-HN1) for 14 consecutive days after enrollment. The primary outcome measure will be the length of hospital stay. Secondary outcomes will be inflammatory mediators, including serum C-reactive protein, interleukin (IL)-6, tumor necrosis factor-α, IL-1β, and IL-10. Clinical outcomes will be numeric rating scale scores for pain, sequential organ failure assessment, ICU length of stay, 30-day mortality, and WHO Disability Assessment Schedule. Data will be analyzed by chi-square test or t test for pairwise comparisons, as well as one-way ANOVA followed by post hoc Tukey method between groups.ObjectivesThe aim of this protocol is to investigate the clinical effects of EA and LA on major trauma.Trial RegistrationClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT04970433. Registered on July 21, 2021.Copyright © 2021 the Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc.

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