Acute Pain
Volume 11, Issue 3 , Pages 101-106 , December 2009

Electrical punctual stimulation (P-STIM) with ear acupuncture following tonsillectomy, a randomised, controlled pilot study

  • H. Kager

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, LKH – Klagenfurt, St. Veiter Strasse 47, 9020 Klagenfurt, Austria
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, General Hospital Klagenfurt, St. Veiter Strasse 47, 9020 Klagenfurt, Austria. Tel.: +43 463 538 26187; fax: +43 463 538 23070.
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  • R. Likar

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, LKH – Klagenfurt, St. Veiter Strasse 47, 9020 Klagenfurt, Austria
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  • H. Jabarzadeh

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, LKH – Klagenfurt, St. Veiter Strasse 47, 9020 Klagenfurt, Austria
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  • R. Sittl

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anaesthesiology, University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany
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  • C. Breschan

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, LKH – Klagenfurt, St. Veiter Strasse 47, 9020 Klagenfurt, Austria
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  • J. Szeles

      Affiliations

    • Department of Vascular Surgery, Medical University Vienna, Spitalgasse 23, 1090 Wien, Austria

Received 12 March 2008 ,Revised 30 September 2009 ,Accepted 2 October 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.acpain.2009.10.001

Acute Pain
Volume 11, Issue 3 , Pages 101-106 , December 2009

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