The Effect of Massage Therapy on Autonomic Activity in Critically Ill Children

Objectives. Our main objective was to describe the effect of foot and hand (F&H) massage on the autonomic nervous system (ANS) activity in children hospitalized in a pediatric intensive care unit (PICU); the secondary objectives were to assess the relationship between ANS function and the clini...

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Main Authors: Guan, Ling, Collet, Jean-Paul, Yuskiv, Nataliya, Skippen, Peter, Brant, Rollin, Kissoon, Niranjan
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4283436/