Acta Anaesthesiologica Taiwanica
Volume 48, Issue 2 , Pages 80-86 , June 2010

Effects of Auricular Acupressure on Pain Reduction in Patient-controlled Analgesia After Lumbar Spine Surgery

  • Mei-Ling Yeh

      Affiliations

    • School of Nursing, National Taipei College of Nursing, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C
    • ,
  • Mei-Yung Tsou

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anesthesiology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital and School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C
    • ,
  • Bih-Yun Lee

      Affiliations

    • School of Nursing, Oriental Institute of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C
    • ,
  • Hsing-Hsia Chen

      Affiliations

    • Department of Applied Mathematics, Chung-Yuan Christian University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, R.O.C
    • ,
  • Yu-Chu Chung

      Affiliations

    • School of Nursing, Yuanpei University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, R.O.C
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. School of Nursing, Yuanpei University, 306 Yuanpei Street, Hsinchu, Taiwan, R.O.C

Received 18 May 2009 ,Revised 5 February 2010 ,Accepted 10 February 2010.

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PII: S1875-4597(10)60018-5

doi: 10.1016/S1875-4597(10)60018-5

Acta Anaesthesiologica Taiwanica
Volume 48, Issue 2 , Pages 80-86 , June 2010

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