Postoperative analgesic effect of acupotomy combined with patient-controlled analgesia in patients undergoing video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery: a study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Abstract Background Postoperative acute pain is a common issue following thoracic surgery. Acupotomy is a common and safe intervention method for pain treatment in clinical practice. In previous preliminary experiments, we found that acupotomy has a good clinical effect and good safety in the treatm...

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Main Authors: Cai Jiang, Yinyan Li, Xiaomei Li, Jinhua Guo, Miaomiao Guo, Shengxian Yu, Zhonghua Lin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-12-01
Series:Trials
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-020-04926-7