Cold Therapy in Perioperative Spinal Surgeries (Essay Sample)

Cold Therapy in Perioperative Spinal Surgeries
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Cold Therapy in Perioperative Spinal Surgeries
The Effects of Localized Cold Therapy on Pain in Postoperative Spinal Fusion Patients by Quinlan et al. is an article employing randomized control trial approach. The research question was the effect of postoperative use of cold therapy and its connection to the level of analgesia use after surgery (Quinlan, Davis, Fields, Madamba, Colman, Tinca & Drake, 2017). The paper purposed to determine the impact of cold on postoperative backbone pains. The authors justify the importance of their research in that more body of knowledge is required in establishing the application of cold therapy for patients with spinal pain. Considerably, their narrow use of sources with significantly dated studies assert more studies are needed in cold therapy use for more accurate, up-to-date, and decisive results. 
The experiment used a two-group randomized control design on lumbar spinal fusion surgery. The methods were systematic through randomization lists and random generators to assign the available subjects to either group. They were also rigorous, especially in their inclusion and exclusion techniques. However, the inclusion of English-speaking as part of the inclusion criteria might not have been necessary for the given circumstances (Quinlan et al., 2017). The study uses many references in its literature review to show the past experiments' results on the analgesic effects of cold therapy perioperative. The study’s results also coincided with the results of the previous experiments, which increases its validity. However, considering the article was published in 2017, the use of sources compiled over twenty years before is considerably unadvisable, especially in an age when medicine is changing overnight. Therefore, the use of old sources makes the material’s reliability questionable. Nevertheless, the authors have used various sources from different but interconnected fields affirming their work. The use of the best applications for studying the results and generating the results increases the validity of the findings, such as using the Numerical Rating Scale for complimenting other pain-measuring techniques.   
The findings are dependable, given the measures taken to promote the validity of the study. For instance, ninety-three volunteers for the study were excluded from the intervention groups for failing to meet the pre-set criteria (Quinlan et al., 2017). The researchers used SAS version 9.3, which was a good choice, ha