Original Article

The Role of Acu-TENS in Hemodynamic Recovery after Open-Heart Surgery

Table 4

Mean postoperative nausea and dyspnea score before and after Acu-TENS and placebo-TENS.

Acu-TENS groupPlacebo- TENS groupBetween- group P-value

Pre-intervention score0.23 ± 0.071 ± 0.19 .001
Post-intervention score0.09 ± 0.050.85 ± 0.18 .000
Within group P-value.034.247

Data are mean ± SE.