Effect of the intensity of transcutaneous acupoint electrical stimulation on the postoperative analgesic requirement

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 406-413

  Wang, Baoguo ^a   Tang, Jun ^a   White, Paul F ^a   Naruse, Robert ^a   Sloninsky, Alexander ^a   Kariger, Robert ^b   Gold, Julian ^a   Wender, Ronald H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIEMETIC AGENT; ANTIPRURITIC AGENT; HYDROMORPHONE; OPIATE; OXYCODONE; PARACETAMOL; PETHIDINE; SEDATIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; ELECTROANALGESIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PATIENT CONTROLLED ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION; VERTIGO; VOMITING;

ABDOMEN; ACUPUNCTURE POINTS; ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADULT; ANALGESIA, PATIENT-CONTROLLED; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANTIEMETICS; ANTIPRURITICS; DIZZINESS; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; HYDROMORPHONE; INCIDENCE; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MIDDLE AGED; NAUSEA; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PRURITUS; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TRANSCUTANEOUS ELECTRIC NERVE STIMULATION;

EID: 0030793533     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000539-199708000-00029     Document Type: Article

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