Effect of Coolant Spray on Traumatic Rib Pain of Geriatric Patients
Status:
Completed
Trial end date:
2020-11-01
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of cryotherapy in the early period pain
treatment of elderly patients with rib fractures due to blunt thoracic trauma.In this
prospective randomized controlled study, geriatric patients were assigned to groups to
receive either coolant spray (n=51) or placebo spray (n=50). To the coolant spray group
patients,a coolant spray was applied. To the placebo group patients, a normal saline solution
in a bottle covered with white opaque paper and refrigerated at 4 °C was sprayed. The visual
analog scale (VAS) scores of all patients were recorded before starting spray application (V
0 ), at 10th minute (V 1 ), 20th minute (V 2 ), 30th minute (V 3 ), 60th minute (V 4 ), 120th
minute (V 5 ), and 360th minute (V 6 ). The mean decreases in the VAS scores and the mean of
the percentage of reduction in the VAS scores were calculated.