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| Clinical observation on treating postoperative nausea and vomiting with integrating of acupuncture and medicine |
| Hits 1631 Download times 1870 Received:November 06, 2007 |
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| DOI
10.11656/j.issn.1672-1519.2008.02.09 |
| Key Words
integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine;postoperative nausea and vomiting(PONV);ondansetron;acupuncture;NeiGuan(P6) |
| Author Name | Affiliation | | FENG Lu | The Second Hospital affiliated to Tianjin University of TCM, Tianjin 300150, China | | WANG Jun | 天津中医药大学第二附属医院 天津 300150 |
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| Abstract
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| [Objective] To evaluate and compare the curative effect of medicine alone and integration of acupuncture and medicine on treating postoperative nausea and vomiting(PONV).[Methods] All patients were undergone operation of celiac or peritoneal operation except gastro-intestinal operation and were received ondansetron 4 mg before the operation.The case was selected only if the patient complained about nausea and vomiting within 6 h after operation.Eight-five patients were selected and they were randomly divided into two groups: control and acupuncture group.In controls,the patients were injected with ondansetron 4 mg and were acupunctured at a non-acupoint site.In the acupuncture group,they were injected with ondansetron 4 mg and acupunctured at the P6 point simultaneously.The level of PONV thereafter was recorded and the clinical effect observed.[Results] The patients of acupuncture group had a lower level of PONV than that of control group.The incidence of PONV wasn’t significantly different between two groups.[Conclusions] Associated ondansetron with acupuncture at the P6 meridian point is more effective for the treatment of nausea and vomiting than using ondansetron alone. |
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