Pain is a complex and subjective experience that is difficult to assess. Many factors influence how it is communicated, including age, culture, gender and personality. The meaning patients attach to ...

A pain scale is a tool that doctors use to help assess a person’s pain. A person usually self-reports their pain using a specially designed scale, sometimes with the help of a doctor, parent, or ...

It’s an experience that most everyone has had at a doctor or hospital visit, where at some point, usually early on, the question ‘on a scale of 0-10, what’s your level of pain?’ comes up. Then, before ...

Table 1. Description and outline of the advantages and disadvantages of the most commonly used pain assessment tools. Pain assessment tool Description Advantages Disadvantages Verbal rating scale Pain ...

Those with migraine had had pain for at least 12 months and the acute pain group had undergone orthopedic surgery within the past 24 hours. Pain intensity was measured with numeric and verbal rating ...

Have you ever been asked to rate your pain on a scale of one to 10? Or been shown a chart with different cartoon emoticons, where you are asked to choose one to describe your pain levels? Pain ...

The search of the 4 databases revealed a total of 35 infant pain assessment tools. Many tools were unidimensional in nature. Additionally, some of the unidimensional tools were specifically designed ...

KUTV — The following information is provided by Intermountain Health. May 6-12 is National Nurses Week. During the pandemic many people recognized nurses as working at the hospital bedside and in ...

To establish beginning evidence of clinical validity and reliability of the Neonatal Pain, Agitation and Sedation Scale (N-PASS) in neonates with prolonged pain postoperatively and during mechanical ...

Unrelieved pain in children has several undesirable physical and psychological consequences in the short and longer term. Other effects of unrelieved pain include prolonged hospital stays, more ...

Postoperative Concurrent Chemoradiotherapy Versus Postoperative Radiotherapy in High-Risk Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Head and Neck: The Randomized Phase III TROG 05.01 Trial Ten centers ...

A newly-published Cochrane review reveals significant gaps in the clinical rating scales used to assess pain in newborn babies, highlighting the urgent need for improved tools and global collaboration ...