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FERRIOL RODRIGUEZ, Marta R.; PAGOLA BERGER, Víctor  y  HERRERA RODRIGUEZ, María Elena. The pain relief using acupuncture analgesia in renal extracorporeal lithotripsy. Rev cuba anestesiol reanim [online]. 2009, vol.8, n.3. ISSN 1726-6718.

Introduction: Renoureteral-lithiasis is very common in our practice and it is the cause of dissimilar pictures where mainly predominates the pain. From 1991, in "Arnaldo Milián Castro" University Hospital of Villa Clara province, the renal extracorporeal lithotripsy is performed. It is a non-invasive, but painful procedure mainly at moment of calculus fragmentation. This procedure is performed without pain relief method. Aim: To assess the effects of acupuncture analgesia on electrical stimulation to pain relief in performing of renal extracorporeal lithotripsy. Materials and Methods: A comparative study was conducted between two groups of patients (50 each): Group I using acupuncture analgesia with electrical stimulation and the Group II where it was used in a conventional way without pain relief method that is the current procedure. Results: It was confirmed that patients in which acupuncture was applied had a slight to moderate pain with a good quality of analgesia and the hemodynamic parameters remained more stable and with a minimum of complications. Conclusions: Acupuncture analgesia with electrical stimulation in IG4 and V57 points was satisfactory as method to pain relief during performing of renal extracorporeal lithotripsy since there was an excellent analgesia and a hemodynamic stability, as well as a minimum of complications.

Palabras clave : Acupuncture analgesia; extracorporeal lithotripsy.

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