The Effectiveness of Auricular Acupressure for Pain Reliving in Trauma Patients during Emergency medication

• Main Authors: Hsiu-Hsia Weng, 翁秀霞
• Other Authors: Jih-Yuan Chen
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/21226630567223908891

碩士 === 高雄醫學大學 === 護理學系碩士班 === 103 === Purposes: the primary cause of the paitent with trauma who transfered to the emergency department was accident, the primary treatment was pain reliving at the arriving. the purpose of this study was to investigate the improvement of auricular acupressure at acupoints on pain and anxiety in patients with acute trauma . Methods: There was an experiment control and randomized study design , sample were selected from May 08, 2015 to May 28, 2015 in the emergency department of a regional hospital in southern Taiwan Chamber revealed. 62 patients with acute trauma who were randomly assigned subjects have been between the experimental and the control group. The experimental group used of the real auricular points and the control group used the sham auricular point, both groups were accepted auricular acupressure for 30 minutes, the effects were evaluatedly the pain , anxiety scores, the heart rate and blood pressure variation. Results: The study found(1) that there were significant higher decreased VAS-pain and VAS-anxiety scores in the experiment group than in the control group at auricular acupressure therapy,(2) There were significant improvement with heart rate in the experiment group than the control group at auricular acupressure. Conclusion: To apply the auricular acupressure for pain reliving has a significant effect in patients with acute trauma, so if we can administrate the auricular acupressure with pressing massage in clinical care of acute trauma patients, and proceeding through the clinical nurses after the implementation of the learning, can reduce pain and the side effects of pain control by using drug , besides it’s can also improve the anxiety degree and heat rate of the acute trauma patients, increasing the quality of care.