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: Received: 2 February 2024 / Approved: 2 February 2024 / Online: 2 February 2024 (11:45:25 CET)
How to cite:
CHEN, C.; Hsu, C.; CHEN, S. Variations in Heart Rate Variability Subsequent to Auriculotherapy Among Individuals Afflicted by Significant Burn Scars. Preprints2024, 2024020161. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202402.0161.v1
CHEN, C.; Hsu, C.; CHEN, S. Variations in Heart Rate Variability Subsequent to Auriculotherapy Among Individuals Afflicted by Significant Burn Scars. Preprints 2024, 2024020161. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202402.0161.v1
CHEN, C.; Hsu, C.; CHEN, S. Variations in Heart Rate Variability Subsequent to Auriculotherapy Among Individuals Afflicted by Significant Burn Scars. Preprints2024, 2024020161. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202402.0161.v1
APA Style
CHEN, C., Hsu, C., & CHEN, S. (2024). Variations in Heart Rate Variability Subsequent to Auriculotherapy Among Individuals Afflicted by Significant Burn Scars. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202402.0161.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
CHEN, C., Chung-Hua Hsu and SANPEI CHEN. 2024 "Variations in Heart Rate Variability Subsequent to Auriculotherapy Among Individuals Afflicted by Significant Burn Scars" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202402.0161.v1
Abstract
Background:
Auriculotherapy is a widely used approach for alleviating discomfort in patients experiencing pain, itchiness, sleep disturbances, and heightened anxiety. This method is also applicable to patients dealing with significant burn scars, who often encounter similar symptoms. Employed as an adjuvant therapy, auriculotherapy demonstrates potential in mitigating these clinical manifestations among individuals with major burn scars. These symptoms are known to be influenced by the autonomic nervous system.
Objectives:
Despite the absence of current data elucidating the impact of auriculotherapy on the autonomic nervous system, we embarked on an analysis of our heart rate variability (HRV) data to evaluate autonomic system functionality before and after the administration of auriculotherapy.
Methods:
Paired-samples t-tests and linear regression analysis of HRV variables and correlations with TBSA before and after auriculotherapy of a cohort of 31 survivors from 2016 Formosa Color Dust Explosion was carried out.
Results:
Significant change of specific HRV variables were found before and after auriculotherapy, and significantly negative correlations was revealed between TBSA and pre-SD prior to auriculotherapy.
Conclusion:
Our study showed that auriculotherapy may, at least in part, restore the equilibrium of autonomic nervous system and improve HRV parameters.
Keywords
auriculotherapy; HRV; TBSA; PBS syndrome
Subject
Medicine and Pharmacology, Clinical Medicine
Copyright:
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.
