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Prehospital analgesia with acupressure in victims of minor trauma: a prospective, randomized, double-blinded trial.

Abstract：

UNLABELLED:Untreated pain during the transportation of patients after minor trauma is a common problem in emergency medicine. Because paramedics usually are not allowed to perform invasive procedures or to give drugs for pain treatment, a noninvasive, nondrug-based method would be helpful. Acupressure is a traditional Chinese treatment for pain that is based on pain relief followed by a short mechanical stimulation of specific points. Consequently, we tested the hypothesis that effective pain therapy is possible by paramedics who are trained in acupressure. In a double-blinded trial we included 60 trauma patients. We randomly assigned them into three groups ("true points," "sham-points," and "no acupressure"). An independent observer, blinded to the treatment assignment, recorded vital variables and visual analog scales for pain and anxiety before and after treatment. At the end of transport, we asked for ratings of overall satisfaction. For statistical evaluation, one-way analysis of variance and the Scheffé F test were used. P < 0.05 was considered statistically significant. Morphometric and demographic data and potential confounding factors such as age, sex, pain, anxiety, blood pressure, and heart rate before treatment did not differ among the groups. At the end of transport we found significantly less pain, anxiety, and heart rate and a greater satisfaction in the "true points" groups (P < 0.01). Our results show that acupressure is an effective and simple-to-learn treatment of pain in emergency trauma care and leads to an improvement of the quality of care in emergency transport. We suggest that this technique is easy to learn and risk free and may improve paramedic-based rescue systems. IMPLICATIONS:We tested, in a double-blinded manner, the hypothesis that acupressure could be an effective pain therapy in minor-trauma patients. Our results show that acupressure is an effective and simple-to-learn treatment of pain in emergency medical care and can improve the quality of care.

journal_name

Anesth Analg

journal_title

Anesthesia and analgesia

authors

Kober A,Scheck T,Greher M,Lieba F,Fleischhackl R,Fleischhackl S,Randunsky F,Hoerauf K

doi

10.1097/00000539-200209000-00035

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2002-09-01 00:00:00

pages

723-7, table of contents

issue

eissn

0003-2999

issn

1526-7598

journal_volume

pub_type

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Prehospital analgesia with acupressure in victims of minor trauma: a prospective, randomized, double-blinded trial.