Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation: An Effective Treatment for Pain Caused by Renal Colic in Emergency Care

Journal of Urology

Volumn 175, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1737-1741

  Mora, Bruno ^a   Giorni, Elisabetta ^b   Dobrovits, Michael ^a   Barker, Renate ^a   Lang, Thomas ^a   Gore, Carmen ^c   Kober, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

Author keywords

colic; kidney; kidney calculi; pain; transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY TEMPERATURE; BODY WEIGHT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY CARE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; KIDNEY COLIC; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAUSEA; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX RATIO; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADULT; COLIC; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY CALCULI; KIDNEY DISEASES; MALE; TRANSCUTANEOUS ELECTRIC NERVE STIMULATION;

EID: 33646010618     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-5347(05)00980-8     Document Type: Article

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