Association between blood cortisol levels and numerical rating scale in prehospital pain assessment

Abstract Background Nowadays, there is no correlation between levels of cortisol and pain in the prehospital setting. The aim of this work was to determine the ability of prehospital cortisol levels to correlate to pain. Cortisol levels were compared with those of the numerical rating scale (NRS). M...

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Main Authors: Raúl López-Izquierdo, Elisa A. Ingelmo-Astorga, Carlos del Pozo Vegas, Santos Gracia Villar, Luis Alonso Dzul López, Silvia Aparicio Obregón, Rubén Calderon Iglesias, Ancor Sanz-García, Francisco Martín-Rodríguez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2025-07-01
Series:Communications Medicine
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s43856-025-01020-4
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