(362) ED Acupuncture: Feasibility, Acceptability, and Impact on Pain

When patients present to the emergency department (ED) for pain, conventional treatment is often limited to prescription medications.   Hospitals are now seeking non-pharmacological management options for acute pain due to the opioid crisis. Our quality improvement study aimed to determine the feasibility of implanting an employed acupuncturist within an urban ED to provide acupuncture as a nonpharmacological acute pain managemen t option and to determine the impact of acupuncture on acute pain reduction.

Source: The Journal of Pain - March 21, 2019 Category: Materials Science Authors: J. Kram, J. Burns, V. Xiong, J. StarkCasadont, T. Mullen, N. Conway, D. Baumgardner Source Type: research