Retrospective Cohort Study
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World J Crit Care Med. May 4, 2016; 5(2): 143-149
Published online May 4, 2016. doi: 10.5492/wjccm.v5.i2.143
Can PC-9 Zhong chong replace K-1 Yong quan for the acupunctural resuscitation of a bilateral double-amputee? Stating the “random criterion problem” in its statistical analysis
Adrián Angel Inchauspe
Adrián Ángel Inchauspe, Department of Reseach, HINEA Interzonal Neuropsychiatric Hospital Dr. Alejandro Korn, Melchor Romero, La Plata, Buenos Aires, Aires B1884CUB, Argentina
Author contributions: Inchauspe AÁ solely contributed to this manuscript.
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Correspondence to: Adrián Ángel Inchauspe, MD, PhD, Department of Reseach, HINEA Interzonal Neuropsychiatric Hospital Dr. Alejandro Korn, Melchor Romero, La Plata, Buenos Aires, 14-4079, Berazategui B1884CUB, Argentina. adrian.inchauspe@yahoo.com.ar
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Received: June 3, 2015
Peer-review started: June 8, 2015
First decision: December 4, 2015
Revised: December 13, 2015
Accepted: January 16, 2016
Article in press: January 19, 2016
Published online: May 4, 2016
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Abstract

AIM: To present an inclusion criterion for patients who have suffered bilateral amputation in order to be treated with the supplementary resuscitation treatment which is hereby proposed by the author.

METHODS: This work is based on a Retrospective Cohort model so that a certainly lethal risk to the control group is avoided.

RESULTS: This paper presents a hypothesis on acupunctural PC-9 Zhong chong point, further supported by previous statistical work recorded for the K-1 Yong quan resuscitation point.

CONCLUSION: Thanks to the application of the resuscitation maneuver herein proposed on the previously mentioned point, patients with bilateral amputation would have another alternative treatment available in case basic and advanced CPR should fail.

Keywords: PC-9 Zhong chong; Alternative emergency point; Cardiac arrest; Double; Amputee patients

Core tip: The aforementioned inclusion criterion for the impossibility of stimulating K-1 Yong quan introduce PC-9 Zhong chong stimulation, so that the Shao Yin energetic level may be reactivated, restarting this biological pacemaker and the cardiac function. Diabetes increases risk of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases from 50% to 80%; and every three seconds, a diabetic foot is amputated in the world. The proposed study upon a prospective non-intervention group, considering the “patients that may be deceased”, states a Retrospective Cohort Study model that will allow us to efface the contingentiality of a possible “fatal damage”.