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Figure 1

From: Acupuncture for post anaesthetic recovery and postoperative pain: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial

Figure 1

Study design. Patients are randomly allocated to either the group ACU (press needle acupuncture), no treatment group (control) or the group APU (press plaster acupressure). After surgery, press needles and press plasters will be kept on the patients’ skin for the next two postoperative days or until discharge from the hospital. The listed outcome measures will be assessed at the marked time points respectively.

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ISSN: 1745-6215