Battlefield acupuncture added no benefit as an adjunct analgesic in emergency department for abdominal, low back or limb trauma pain.
Andrew L JanEmogene S AldridgeEric J VisserIan R RogersDana A HinceMichael V WooseyMax K BulsaraLorna Kp SuenPublished in: Emergency medicine Australasia : EMA (2020)
The present study on 90 patients did not show a significant difference in analgesia outcomes in the first 2 h using Adj-BFA for acute pain in the ED, and there were no significant differences for secondary outcomes between treatment arms. Given the mixed results of recent BFA trials, further research using the original BFA technique on different painful conditions, as either stand-alone or as-adjunct to non-opioid analgesia are needed before BFA can be recommended as a technique for acute pain management in the ED.
Keyphrases
- pain management
- emergency department
- chronic pain
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- respiratory failure
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- prognostic factors
- neuropathic pain
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