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Acupuncture for persistent hiccup in an intensive care patient – a case report
J Dietzel, M Grundling, D Pavlovic, T Usichenko · Aktuelle Neurologie · 2008 · Heft 09
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Background: Usually hiccup is a brief, self- limited disturbance without clinical significance. However it can be a serious burden when it is persistent, intractable or resistant to therapy. Beyond impairment of feeding and sleep, in critically ill patients hiccup can lead to physical exhaustion, aspiration pneumonia, cardiac arrhythmias, respiratory arrest and wound dehiscence, that require medical intervention. Case-report: A 55-year old man underwent an elective pylorus preserving resection of the pancreas because of an ulcerated carcinoma of the Vater's papilla. On the third day following surgery the patient…
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Acupuncture
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