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Study | Design | Participants | Intervention | Outcomes |
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Kober et al., 2001 [18] |
Randomized single-blinded | with minor trauma |
Warming with an electric heating blanket |
Resistive heating: ↓pain, anxiety, ↑overall patient satisfaction, thermal comfort, and core temperature |
Resistive heating (, 53–67 years old) |
Passive warming (, 50–64 years old) |
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Kober et al., 2003 [19] |
Randomized single-blinded | with cholelithiasis |
Warming with an electric heating blanket over abdomen |
Active warming: ↓pain, anxiety, heart rate, and ↑skin and subcutaneous temperature |
Active warming (, 47.8 ± 18.2 years old) |
Passive warming (, 42.9 ± 21.0 years old) |
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Kober et al., 2003 [20] |
Randomized single-blinded | with acute renal colic |
Warming with an electric blanket set to 42°C |
Resistive heating: ↓pain, anxiety, nausea, vasoconstriction, heart rate, and ↑overall patient satisfaction |
Resistive heating (, 27.6 ± 6.8 years old) |
Passive warming |
(, 29.4 ± 7.1 years old) |
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Bertalanffy et al., 2006 [21] |
Randomized single-blinded | (all women) with pelvic pain |
Warming with an electric heating blanket over abdomen |
Active warming: ↓pain, anxiety, nausea, heart rate, and vasoconstriction |
Active warming (, 24.2 ± 5.1 years old) |
Passive warming (, 26.3 ± 3.8 years old) |
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