Auricular acupressure as a treatment for anxiety in prehospital transport settings

Anesthesiology

Volumn 98, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1328-1332

  Kober, Alexander ^a,b   Scheck, Thomas ^a,b   Schubert, Barbara ^b   Strasser, Helmut ^b   Gustorff, Burkhard ^a   Bertalanffy, Petra ^a   Wang, Shu Ming ^c   Kain, Zeev N ^c   Hoerauf, Klaus ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Vienna Red Cross   (Austria)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUPRESSURE; ACUTE STRESS DISORDER; ADULT; AGED; AMBULANCE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; EAR; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NOCICEPTION; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SELF EVALUATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ACUPRESSURE; ACUPUNCTURE POINTS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANXIETY; BLOOD PRESSURE; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EAR, EXTERNAL; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; RELAXATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0038104751     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-200306000-00005     Document Type: Article

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