[Efficacy of modified auriculotherapy for post-operative pain control in patients subjected to laparoscopic cholecystectomy]
| Autor: | David Esmer-Sánchez, Jiovanni Toca-Villegas, Juan Francisco Hernández-Sierra, Jesús García-Narváez, Martín Sánchez-Aguilar |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Adult
Male medicine.medical_specialty Lidocaine Auriculotherapy Visual analogue scale medicine.medical_treatment Administration Topical Analgesic Ocean Engineering 03 medical and health sciences Young Adult 0302 clinical medicine Double-Blind Method medicine Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Anesthetics Local Laparoscopy Analgesics Pain Postoperative medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Middle Aged Surgery Clinical trial Cholecystectomy Laparoscopic Elective Surgical Procedures 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis Anesthesia Cholecystectomy Female business Elective Surgical Procedure medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Cirugia y cirujanos. 85(3) |
| ISSN: | 2444-054X |
| Popis: | BACKGROUND The high frequency of post-operative pain in the patients after laparoscopic cholecystectomy has led to the need to use multiple analgesic therapies. These include auriculotherapy, although not very good results have been obtained with the traditional techniques. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effectiveness of modified auriculotherapy for post-operative pain control in laparoscopic cholecystectomy patients. MATERIAL AND METHODS Double-blind controlled clinical trial. Experimental group: Different points ear puncture with xylocaine without needles vs. placebo group. Post-operative visual analogue scale (VAS) at 6, 12, 18, 24, 36, and 48h and rescue doses of analgesics, were measured in both groups. RESULTS At 6h post-operative, 87% of the auriculotherapy group had a VAS of |
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