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Pain Research and Management
Volume 2018, Article ID 9715142, 7 pages
https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/9715142
Clinical Study

A Comparative Study between Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation and Fentanyl to Relieve Shoulder Pain during Laparoscopic Gynecologic Surgery under Spinal Anesthesia: A Randomized Clinical Trail

Zahra Asgari,1 Zahra Tavoli,1 Reihaneh Hosseini,1 Masoomeh Nataj,2 Fatemeh Tabatabaei,3 Fatemeh Dehghanizadeh,4 Hosein Haji-Amoo-Assar,5 Mahdi Sepidarkish,6 and Ali Montazeri7

1Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
2Department of Anesthesiology, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
3Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
4Department of Physical Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
5Department of Physical Medicine, Lorestan University of Medical Sciences, Lorestan, Iran
6Department of Epidemiology and Reproductive Health, Reproductive Epidemiology Research Centre, Royan Institute for Reproductive Biomedicine, ACECR, Tehran, Iran
7Population Health Research Group, Health Metrics Research Centre, Iranian Institute for Health Sciences Research, ACECR, Tehran, Iran

Correspondence should be addressed to Zahra Tavoli; ri.ca.smut@ilovatz

Received 21 September 2017; Revised 10 December 2017; Accepted 4 January 2018; Published 18 March 2018

Academic Editor: Andreas Sandner-Kiesling

Copyright © 2018 Zahra Asgari et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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