Efficacy of acupuncture in prevention of postoperative anaesthesia-related shivering.

Dear editor Postoperative shivering still occurs as a complication of general anaesthesia.1 ,2 Shivering depends on age, sex, duration of anaesthesia and type of anaesthetic agent(s).1–3 Primarily due to anaesthetic agents such as isoflurane, this type of shivering presents as spontaneous muscular activity in patients with normal body temperature after general anaesthesia for specific operations.4 ,5 With advances in alternative medicine in recent decades, acupuncture is increasingly known as an effective method in managing complications of surgery and anaesthesia. However, the most efficacious point of stimulation still needs investigation. A prospective non-randomised clinical study was performed on 228 patients admitted to the department of surgery at Shariati Hospital between March 2011 and June 2011. The Research Ethics …