Laser-assisted Anesthesia Reduces the Pain of Venous Cannulation in Children and Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 623-628

  Singer, Adam J ^a   Weeks, Robert ^a   Regev, Ran ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

intravenous cannulation; laser; pain; stratum corneum

Indexed keywords

ELA MAX; LIDOCAINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION; INTRAVENOUS CATHETER; MALE; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PIGMENT DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR ACCESS; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; YAG LASER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANESTHESIA, LOCAL; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; CATHETERIZATION, PERIPHERAL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LASER THERAPY, LOW-LEVEL; MALE; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33646584481     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2006.01.016     Document Type: Article

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