Cooling treatment (ice pack) vs no treatment: Perineal pain 24 ‐ 48 hours after giving birth ‐ Moderate + severe pain
It is very uncertain whether cooling treatment (ice pack or cold gel pad) changes perineal pain between 24 ‐ 48 after giving birth ‐ Moderate + severe… compared with no treatment (very low certainty).
What each review found
Current versions only| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Cooling treatment (ice pack or cold gel pad) vs no treatment Perineal pain between 24 ‐ 48 after giving birth ‐ Moderate + severe pain · Women with perineal trauma (tear or episiotomy, or both) sustained during childbirth It is very uncertain whether cooling treatment (ice pack or cold gel pad) changes perineal pain between 24 ‐ 48 after giving birth ‐ Moderate + severe… compared with no treatment (very low certainty). Local cooling for relieving pain from perineal trauma sustained during childbirth (2020) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | RR 0.73 [0.57, 0.94] | 1 study · 316 participants | Very low |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Local cooling for relieving pain from perineal trauma sustained during childbirth 2020 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | Not reported | list not extracted yet | Not assessed |
Studies behind the findings
None of these reviews ties its included studies to this outcome in the data here. Cochrane reviews and reviews with headline outcomes only do not list their studies yet.
How reviews are matched to this question
Reviews word the same question differently. Four decision models (TypeSafe's Jev, Liquid AI's d1-ultra, SubQ Snap and Baseten's Elephant) judged each wording of the population, intervention, comparator and outcome against the others; two wordings count as the same when at least three of them agree and none clearly disagrees, and findings count as this question only when all four elements match. Timing, setting and subgroup never split a question: they are shown on each finding.