Minute sphere acupressure does not reduce postoperative pain or morphine consumption

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 493-497

  Sakurai, Masatomo ^a   Suleman, Muhammad Irfan ^a   Morioka, Nobutada ^a   Akça, Ozan ^a   Sessler, Daniel I ^a,b  

^a University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIEMETIC AGENT; DESFLURANE; FENTANYL; MORPHINE;

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ACUPRESSURE; ACUPUNCTURE ANALGESIA; ADULT; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG USE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINUTE SPHERE ACUPRESSURE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CONTROLLED ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA AND VOMITING; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ABDOMEN; ACUPRESSURE; ACUPUNCTURE POINTS; AGED; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANESTHESIA, INHALATION; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORPHINE; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA AND VOMITING;

EID: 0037301935     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000539-200302000-00036     Document Type: Article

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