Effects of TENS in Patients Admitted to the ICU After Cardiac Surgery

these patients will be subjected to the same usual routine of pharmacological analgesia, consisting of the administration of 1g of dipyrone at the discretion, with escalation to tramal (dose) and physiotherapy in the hospital ICU, in addition to an application of TENS, with the device turned on, with programming on channels that are not connected to the patients, so as to generate visual and auditory feedback.

Patients in this group will undergo the hospital usual analgesia and physiotherapy routine, in addition to conventional TENS with a low frequency of 5 Hz and a pulse width of 250 µs.

In this group, patients will undergo the usual routine of analgesia and hospital physiotherapy, in addition to TENS with a frequency of 140 Hz, pulse width of 50 µs.