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Massage therapy to improve sleep quality post coronary artery bypass graft surgery
CE Lim, NCL Cheng - Focus on Alternative and ..., 2012 - Wiley Online Library Forty patients, aged between 40 and 80 years, who were waiting for elective coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery at the Heart Institute, So Paulo, participated. Excluded were patients with a body-mass index≥ 35 kg/m 2, a history of regular alcohol consumption, ... [HTML]
In today's clinical environment, most patients post CABG surgery would be placed on a patient controlled analgesia (PCA) machine for intermittent opioid administration during the postoperative period. It was not mentioned in the article whether any of the recruited subjects were placed on PCA while massage therapy was offered. Given that opioid medication can cause drowsiness and sleepiness, it would be useful to know if any of the subjects were exposed to opioid medication at the same time massage therapy was offered. In addition, there was no mention of whether the recruited subjects received short acting sedative drugs or benzodiazepines (such as temazepam) after the massage therapy. These medications may also influence a patients' sleep quality.
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