"Res Nurs Health..."???
Please stop! I can't take anymore!! I can't type because the TEARS are clouding my vision and my depends is FULL!
Nevertheless, I just can't resist asking what the "non-therapeutic threshold" of a calmare is supposed to be! Is that when it's off or when it's on -- given that the patient wouldn't know the difference, I just wondered how they found that "threshold."
I mean, how do they KNOW it's "sub-therapeutic"? According to MISTER MARINEO, the way to tell whether the pads are placed correctly, is that the patient experience near COMPLETE pain relief and then crank DOWN the current so the patient feels NOTHING but pain relief. So unless they turned the machine completely off, they can't possibly know whether the therapy being administered is "sub-therapeutic"! For all they know, it might be "therapeutic" down to 0.00000000000000000000001 milliamps!
And what if a subject NEVER experiences ANY pain relief -- what's THEIR "threshold"? I'd hate to think about some poor patient going into v-fib or their hair catching fire while the therapist is cranking the calmare up to "11" looking for a "threshold."!
Hoo-boy! Talk about polluting the scientific literature!
