TENS relieves acute posttraumatic hip pain during emergency transport

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 184-188

  Lang, Thomas ^a,d   Barker, Renate ^a   Steinlechner, Barbara ^a   Gustorff, Burkhard ^a   Puskas, Tivadar ^b   Gore, Odette ^c   Kober, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Hungarian National Emergency Service   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^d MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Acute trauma; Emergency transport; Medics; Pain; Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO;

ACUTE POSTTRAUMATIC HIP PAIN; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SELECTION; PATIENT TRANSPORT; POSTTRAUMATIC PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCREENING; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMBULANCES; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS; FEMALE; HIP FRACTURES; HUMANS; MALE; PAIN; TRANSCUTANEOUS ELECTRIC NERVE STIMULATION;

EID: 33846193684     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ta.0000197176.75598.fc     Document Type: Article

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