The effect of massage therapy on autonomic activity in critically ill children.

Finally, the median increases of HF, LF, and HF + LF during massage in the 4 sickest subjects (PELOD scores > 10) were higher than the ones observed in milder cases (the 14 patients with PELOD scores of 0 and 1): 84% versus 57% for HF, 81% versus 40% for LF, and 81% versus 48% for HF + LF, respectively; these differences however did not reach statistical significance (Mann-Whitney U test P ≈ 0.38 for all three tests). 3.3.

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