Treatment of hypertensive urgency with ear acupuncture in patients diagnosed with hypertension decompensated

Abstract

A prospective quasi-experimental study was conducted in the Hospital “Comandante Manuel Fajardo Rivero” Hospital from September 2009 to March 2013 and its main purpose was focused on evaluating the results of ear acupuncture in the treatment of hypertensive urgency in patients diagnosed with hypertension decompensated in the Emergency Service. The study population consisted of 303 patients who were attended in the Guardroom and they agreed to cooperate with the investigation. Two groups were formed, each of them with 54 patients who fulfilled the inclusion and exclusion criteria; one received treatment with ear acupuncture and the other with oral captopril. The variables age, sex, type of injury, clinical course, remission time of blood pressure levels and treatment outcomes were evaluated (both were satisfactory). It was presented the hypertensive urgency without significant differences between the sexes and the average age of the group with ear acupuncture, which was significantly lower than the treated with captopril, it was showed more often the hypertensive urgency between 40 and 59 years predominated injury by warm fullness or excess in the wood element in both groups, the clinical evolution was favorable in both groups in the minute 60, the remission time of blood pressure levels was shorter in the group with ear acupuncture and moderately short in treated with captopril.

Keywords

• hipertensión
• terapia por acupuntura