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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Dec 11.
Published in final edited form as: J Acupunct Meridian Stud. 2016 Apr 4;9(5):234–241. doi: 10.1016/j.jams.2016.03.009

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Electroacupuncture attenuated postoperative use of analgesia. (A) Control or two electroacupuncture (EA) treatments of 30 minutes started ~ 15 minutes after the induction of general anesthesia. Blood samples include: pre (before EA and surgery), intra (after EA and during surgery), and post (during anesthesia but right after surgery). (B—E) Use of analgesics and pain score in the control or EA group at the postanalgesia care unit (P) analyzing all the patients or female patients. (F) Use of analgesics at the PACU in the age and body weight subgroups. (G—I) Use of analgesics, pain score, and Quality of Recovery (QoR) mean values of the women with and without EA at the P and the 3 days after surgery. Graphs depict mean ± standard error. * p < 0.1, ** p < 0.05. eq = equivalents.