Factors affecting pain scores during female urethral catheterization

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 699-702

  Tanabe, Paula ^a,d   Steinmann, Rebecca ^b   Anderson, Jill ^b,c   Johnson, Deborah ^c   Metcalf, Sue ^c   Ring Hurn, Eileen ^c  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CHILDREN'S MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Pain; Procedural pain; Urethral catheterization

Indexed keywords

LIDOCAINE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; LUBRICATING AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLADDER CATHETERIZATION; CATHETER; CATHETERIZATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; FEMALE; GEL; HUMAN; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCORING SYSTEM; TOPICAL ANESTHESIA; URETHRA; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

EID: 2942589195     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2003.10.029     Document Type: Article

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