CES Can Potentiate the Effects of Analgesics

Finally, noting that CES is apparently an effective treatment for pain, several studies have been done to assess its potential to potentiate the effects of analgesics. One anesthetist gave 90 urological patients and 30 abdominal surgery patients N2O (nitrous oxide) in...

A Summary Look at CES Studies of Insomnia

Primary insomnia as a complaint lasting for a least one month, of difficulty initiating and/or maintaining sleep or of the presence of non restorative sleep, as defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.1 The International Classification of...

Treating Insomnia with CES

While CES came to the U.S. as “electrosleep” and its intent was to put patients to sleep when the current was turned on, that simply did not occur irrespective of the manipulation of the stimulus parameters. Along with Kratzenstein’s observation in 1743 that putting...