Community-acquired pneumonia
Conditions
Interventions
intervention group:formula that benefits the qi and nourishes the yin
control group:moisten the lungs and compress the lungs (TCM)
Sponsors
Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
60 Years to 85 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: (1) Meet the diagnostic criteria of CAP in Chinese and Western medicine; (2) Comply with the diagnostic criteria of Chinese medicine recognized as the recovery phase of qi and yin deficiency type and have related symptoms; (3) Age between 60 and 85 years old gender is not limited; (4) Body temperature 24h without fever after =5 days of anti-infection treatment; (5) Heart rate = 100 beats/min; respiratory rate = 24 beats/min; systolic blood pressure = 90mmHg; oxygen saturation = 90% or partial pressure of arterial oxygen = 60mmHg during air inhalation. serological PCT < 0.25ng/ml; WBC < 12*10^9/L; CRP < 50mg/L; (6) Subjects or family members voluntarily enrolled and filled out the informed consent form.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: (1) Severe drug-resistant bacterial infections and fungal pneumonia or combined with other systemic infections requiring long-term antibiotic treatment; (2) Patients with combined immune diseases such as active stage of malignant tumors AIDS patients etc. requiring long-term use of high-dose hormones or immunosuppressants; (3) Combined with serious functional insufficiency of important organs such as serious cardiac insufficiency liver failure renal failure; (4) People with mental illness who cannot cooperate with the treatment; people who cannot give full informed consent due to intellectual or behavioral disabilities (5) Pregnant or breastfeeding patients (6) Suspected or confirmed history of alcohol or drug abuse. (7) Allergy such as a history of allergy to two or more drugs or food; or known allergy to the ingredients of this drug. (8) Patients who are participating in clinical trials of other drugs.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Chinese Medicine Symptoms of Qi and Yin Deficiency Score;Respiratory infection recurrence rate and pneumonia readmission rate within 1-6 months; | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| T-lymphocytes and immunopentagrams;Pneumonia Severity Score (PIS) and Health Survey Short Form (SF-36) for quality of life scores; | — |
Countries
China
Contacts
Public ContactYUAN Sicheng
Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine
Outcome results
None listed