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Status unknownNCT03363971Updated Dec 6, 2017

Treatment of Posttraumatic Swelling and Pain With Zhi Kang Capsule

A Phase 4 interventional study of Zhi Kang Capsule and Simulant agent for Zhi Kang Capsule in Soft Tissue Injuries, sponsored by Peking University People's Hospital. Status unknown at 1 site in China. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 80 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2017-12-06.

Sponsored by Peking University People's Hospital · Phase 4, Interventional, and Treatment

The sponsor has not verified this record recently (last verified Dec 2017), so the status shown — last known as Enrolling by invitation — may be out of date.

From the registry’s dates

  • Registered 8 months after the study started (first participant enrolled Mar 2017, registered Nov 2017).
Phase
Phase 4
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
2,200
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
18 Years to 80 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

Zhi Kang Capsule functions for hemostasis and detumescence and can be used for traumatic bleeding, uterine bleeding, hematemesis and hematochezia.This randomized controlled trial was conducted to confirm the efficacy and safety of Zhi Kang Capsule in the treatment of posttraumatic swelling and pain,and also in a wide range of applications by open clinical observation.

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Limb fracture is a common disease in the Department of orthopedics, surrounding soft tissue swelling is the most common phenomenon of fracture and surgical treatment.The swelling, limb discomfort and increased pain seriously affecting the treatment effect.Therefore, prevention and treatment of limb swelling and perioperative pain is the main content of the treatment of fractures.

Post traumatic swelling and pain belong to the category of blood stasis syndrome in traditional Chinese medicine.Under the guidance of traditional Chinese medicine theory, traditional Chinese medicine plays a wide range of therapeutic effects, with a syndrome of multiple characteristics, but from the syndrome to the disease diagnosis and treatment process, more and more modern evidence based on medicine support are needed.A randomized controlled trial was carried out in the phase IV clinical trial to confirm the therapeutic effect of the capsule on posttraumatic swelling and pain. Meanwhile, an open clinical trial was conducted to evaluate the safety of the capsule in a wide range of applications.

The research subjects are patients with acute limb fractures within 2 weeks.The inclusion criteria are:(1) diagnosis of limb closed acute fracture, fracture occurred within 14 days, need for surgical treatment;(2) age ranged from 18 to 80 years old, both male and female;(3) voluntarily signed the informed consent form as the subjects.Test grouping include the capsule group and the placebo group.

The research consists of two parts: (1) the core research part: The core study was a placebo-controlled, randomized, double-blind, multicenter trial designed with 400 units of sample size, including 200 patients in the Zhi Kang Capsule group and 200 in the placebo group. The aim of the core study is to evaluate the effectiveness of test drugs. (2) the expanded research part: on the basis of core research,1800 cases were further divided into the capsule group. The aim of the expanded study was to evaluate the safety of the capsule in a large sample.

Criteria for efficacy evaluation include: pain score, swelling degree, lead flow, laboratory indicators and the first healing rate of surgical incision.All the statistical tests were two-sided, and the P value was less than or equal to 0.05, which would be considered statistically significant (except for the special description). The measurement data are described by means of mean, median, standard deviation, maximum, minimum, 25% and 75% quantiles; enumeration data or rank data are expressed in frequency and frequency.

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Conditions studied

  • Soft Tissue Injuries

Keywords

  • soft tissue, pain
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In context

Soft Tissue Injuries

64 studies on the registry are indexed under Soft Tissue Injuries; 7 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 2,200 is above the median of 60 across 51 interventional studies indexed under Soft Tissue Injuries.

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Lead sponsor

Peking University People's Hospital is the lead sponsor of 609 studies on the registry; 247 are open to participants now.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years to 80 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

  • diagnosis of limb closed acute fracture, fracture occurred within 14 days, need for surgical treatment;
  • age ranged from 18 to 80 years old, both male and female;
  • voluntarily signed the form as the subjects.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • open fracture
  • multiple fractures (more than 1) or with vascular, nerve and visceral injuries
  • severe primary diseases associated with heart, brain, liver, kidney, lung and hematopoietic system
  • allergic constitution, mental patients
  • patients with severe gastrointestinal diseases, such as ulcers; patients with severe metabolic diseases
  • patients with history of alcohol addiction or drug abuse
  • patients with poor compliance
  • lactating women, women of pregnancy or childbearing age or male patients, do not agree to adopt effective measures during the study period
  • participants who participated in other clinical trials within the first three months of the study
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(2)

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Informed consent

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Contraception

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Study design

Phase
Phase 4
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
Double (Participant, Care provider)
Enrollment
2,200 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Experimental group

    Zhi Kang Capsule, 0.3g/capsule, oral, 4 capsules at a time, 3 times a day, half an hour after dinner, warm water delivery,treatment for 6 weeks.

    Drug: Zhi Kang Capsule

  • Placebo comparator
    Control group

    Simulant agent for Zhi Kang Capsule,consistent with the appearance, color, odor, and usage of the Zhi Kang capsule, so that it can not be distinguished.oral, 4 capsules at a time, 3 times a day, half an hour after dinner, warm water delivery, treatment for 6 weeks.

    Drug: Simulant agent for Zhi Kang Capsule

Interventions

  • DrugZhi Kang Capsule

    0.3g/capsule, oral, 4 capsules at a time, 3 times a day, half an hour after dinner, warm water delivery; treatment for 6 weeks.

  • DrugSimulant agent for Zhi Kang Capsule

    0.3g/capsule,oral, 4 capsules at a time, 3 times a day, half an hour after dinner, warm water delivery; treatment for 6 weeks.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Pain scale

    assess the pain scores with the numerical rating scale (NRS)

    Time frame: 14 days

Secondary outcomes

  1. Swelling

    assess the swelling degree

    Time frame: 14 days

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Study locations

1 site
  • Peking University People's Hospital
    Peking, Beijing 100044, China
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Timeline

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reached

Started Mar 2017 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Dec 2017, 9 months after the start.

How these figures are worked out, and which studies are left out of them.

Registered
Nov 29, 2017
First posted
Dec 6, 2017
StartActual
Mar 13, 2017
Primary completionEst.
Dec 20, 2017
CompletionEst.
Mar 13, 2018
Last update
Dec 6, 2017
What these dates mean
Start.
When the first participant enrolled; while estimated, when the study expects to open to recruitment.
Primary completion.
When the last participant was examined or treated to collect data for the study's main question, its primary outcome. A study that stopped early gives the date its data collection stopped.
Completion.
When the last participant's last visit took place, for every outcome, secondary ones and side effects included: the end of the study. Often later than primary completion, sometimes the same day.
Actual and Est.
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No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Dec 6, 2017, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT03363971
Responsible party
baoguojiang (Director of Peking University People's Hospital, Peking University People's Hospital) — Principal investigator
First posted
Dec 6, 2017
Start date
Mar 13, 2017
Primary completion
Dec 20, 2017 (estimated)
Completion
Mar 13, 2018 (estimated)
Last update
Dec 6, 2017

Study contacts

People's Hospital Peking University
study director · Peking University

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
Yes
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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