Publications by authors named "Michelle Manon Ruhe"
Eur J Trauma Emerg Surg
June 2024
Article Synopsis
- Patients with hip fractures often experience high pain scores, but prehospital pain management by emergency medical services (EMS) in the Netherlands was found to be often inadequate despite having a comprehensive pain treatment protocol.
- A study involving 436 ambulance-transported hip fracture patients showed a significant reduction in pain scores from 8 to 5 after receiving analgesics, indicating some level of effective pain management.
- However, only 67% of patients with assessed pain scores were treated according to the protocol, and overall, 80% of the patient population did not adhere to the protocol largely due to the absence of pain score assessments.
