Active warming during emergency transport relieves acute low back pain

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Volumn 29, Issue 14, 2004, Pages 1499-1503

  Nuhr, Martin ^a   Hoerauf, Klaus ^a,b   Bertalanffy, Alexander ^b   Bertalanffy, Petra ^a   Frickey, Nathalie ^a   Gore, Carmen ^c   Gustorff, Burkhard ^a   Kober, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

Author keywords

Active warming; Acute low back pain; Emergency transport; Paramedics

Indexed keywords

CARBON FIBER;

ADULT; ANALGESIA; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; HEATING; HUMAN; HYDROCOLLOID; LOW BACK PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADULT; AMBULANCES; BEDDING AND LINENS; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HEAT; HUMANS; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TRANSPORTATION OF PATIENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 3242671414     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.BRS.0000131439.87553.99     Document Type: Article

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