Clinical Trial: Clinical Outcome of Electrical Transcutaneous Auricular Vagal Stimulation in Patients With Stable Symptomatic Chronic Heart Failure

U.S., May 1 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT06950320) titled 'Clinical Outcome of Electrical Transcutaneous Auricular Vagal Stimulation in Patients With Stable Symptomatic Chronic Heart Failure' on Feb. 27.

Brief Summary: This study aims to investigate whether electrical vagus nerve stimulation in the auricle has an impact on the clinical presentation of heart failure. The device used, P-STIM, is already successfully applied in pain therapy and angiology (peripheral arterial disease, PAD) and will also be tested against a placebo in this study.

In preliminary studies, acupuncture was shown to improve the 6-minute walking distance in heart failure patients (Kristen et al., 2010). The investigato...