Managing discomfort caused by immobilization in trauma victims - mitigating a “necessary evil”

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  • Mauro Mota Department of Community Medicine, Information and Health Decision Sciences, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal. Health School of the Polytechnic Institute of Viseu, Portugal. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8188-6533
  • Madalena Cunha Health School of the Polytechnic Institute of Viseu, Portugal. UICISA: E/ESEnfC - Cluster at the Health School of Polytechnic Institute of Viseu, Viseu, Portugal. Academic Clinical Centre of Beiras https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0710-9220
  • Margarida Reis Santos Institute of Biomedical Sciences Abel Salazar, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7948-9317

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https://doi.org/10.29352/mill0211e.28829

Abstract

Trauma is an important cause of mortality and morbidity, a highly prevalent and impactful phenomenon, which requires a complex response due to its multiform clinical presentation (Mota, Cunha, et al., 2021). Added to this important immediate hemodynamic repercussion, the severity of which often leads to hypovolemic shock and death, intense acute pain (greater than 7 on a scale of 0 to 10) in more than 40% of victims (Mota, Santos, et al. al., 2021a ), discomfort caused by cold greater than 5 (on a scale from 0 to 10) in more than 17% (Mota, Santos, et al., 2021b) and other manifestations of discomfort that still do not gather consensus and attention by part of the academic community. One emerges, whose etiology is entirely due to the interventions provided by rescue teams - the discomfort caused by immobilization.

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2022-12-16

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Mota, M. ., Cunha, M., & Reis Santos, M. (2022). Managing discomfort caused by immobilization in trauma victims - mitigating a “necessary evil”. Millenium - Journal of Education, Technologies, and Health, 2(11e), e28829. https://doi.org/10.29352/mill0211e.28829

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No. 11e (2022): Especial Nº11

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