Effect of acupressure on nausea and vomiting decrease
- Conditions
- ausea and Vomiting.Following Gastrointestinal Surgery
- Registration Number
- IRCT2017061134475N1
- Lead Sponsor
- Vice chancellor for Reserch Shiraz University of Medical Sciences
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 70
The inclusion criteria: male and female patients aged from 15 to 60 years old; patients undergone general surgeries with spinal anesthesia; passing at least 3 hours after the injection of an analgesic; not taking antimetic medications; not smoking (in accordance with the patient's statement); lack of edema; disease; and skin inflammation on the massage area (lake of peeling discomfort such as eczema and shallow infection of skin considered as acupressure limitations); before enrolling in the study; not using other procedures to control nausea and vomiting. The exclusion criteria: complicated surgery in terms of infection and severe pain (if the patient complaints of severe pain; he or she has revived analgesic and recorded in the study and would be carried out through face scale pain.); patients with carpal tunnel syndrome; patient with obesity; motion sickness; and history of nausea and vomiting in 24 hours ago; lack of cooperation in every unit of the study.
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Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method ausea and Vomiting. Timepoint: 1 hour, 3hour and 7 hours after the surgery. Method of measurement: Visual Analog Scale.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method