Local cooling for relieving pain from perineal trauma sustained during childbirth

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn , Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  East, Christine E ^a   Begg, Lisa ^b   Henshall, Naomi E ^c   Marchant, Paul ^d   Wallace, Karen ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b ROYAL WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c ROYAL HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN   (Australia)

^d LEEDS METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e QLD Ctr for Evidence Based Nursing and Midwifery (a Collaborating Ctr of the Joanna Briggs Inst)   (Australia)

Author keywords

*Episiotomy; Combined modality therapy methods ; Female; Hyperthermia, induced methods ; Hypothermia, induced *methods ; Magnetics therapeutic use ; Pain *therapy ; Perineum *injuries ; Randomized controlled trials as topic

Indexed keywords

HAMAMELIS EXTRACT; HYDROCORTISONE; PRAMOCAINE;

CHILD CARE; CHILDBIRTH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; COOLING; CRYOANESTHESIA; CRYOTHERAPY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEPRESSION; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PAIN; PERINEUM INJURY; PULSED ELECTRIC FIELD; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RATING SCALE; REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 44949162935     PISSN: 1469493X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD006304.pub2     Document Type: Review

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