ReviewJournal of pain research2018
Pain measurement techniques: spotlight on mechanically ventilated patients.
Review in Journal of pain research, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05811208 (Use of Automated Pupillometry for Pain Assessment in ICU Patients With Delirium), which is not on this map. Cited by 10 papers.
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Use of Automated Pupillometry for Pain Assessment in ICU Patients With Delirium
Who cites it
10 citing papers in PubMed, 33 citations in OpenAlex.
- The Critical Care Pain Observation Tool for Families (CPOT-Fam).Canadian journal of pain = Revue canadienne de la douleur · 2026Article
- Emergency Nurses' Perceptions and Experiences in Managing Acute Pain in Critically Ill Adult Patients: A Qualitative Study.Journal of advanced nursing · 2026Article
- Development and preclinical testing of the critical care pain observation tool for family caregiver use (CPOT-Fam).Health science reports · 2023Article
- Preliminary clinical testing to inform development of the Critical Care Pain Observation Tool for Families (CPOT-Fam).Canadian journal of pain = Revue canadienne de la douleur · 2023Article
- Study protocol: development and pilot testing of the Critical Care Pain Observation Tool for families (CPOT-Fam).Pilot and feasibility studies · 2022Article
- Pain Assessment in Intensive Care Unit: A Forgotten Entity or a Quality Indicator?Indian journal of critical care medicine : peer-reviewed, official publication of Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine · 2022Article
- Clinical Utility of the Behavioral Pain Assessment Tool in Patients Admitted in the Intensive Care Unit.Indian journal of critical care medicine : peer-reviewed, official publication of Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine · 2020Article
- Translation into Spanish and Cultural Adaptation of the Critical-Care Pain Observation Tool.American journal of critical care : an official publication, American Association of Critical-Care Nurses · 2020Article
- Methodological challenges in conducting instrumentation research in non-communicative palliative care patients.Applied nursing research : ANR · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundProcedural pain is a frequent problem in intensive care units (ICUs). For that, pain assessment has been increasingly introduced to the ICU professional's routine, and studies have been developed to show the relevance of measuring pain in critically ill patients.
objectiveThis review aimed to describe pain measurement techniques for mechanically ventilated adult patients based on evidence and already published.
methodSystematic literature search was performed on PubMed and Google Scholar. Keywords "pain", "pain measurement", "intensive care units" and "respiration, artificial" were combined to the Boolean operator AND. No language or publication year was limited in this search. The purpose and method of all papers were analyzed and only studies which described pain assessment in mechanically ventilated patients were included in this review.
resultsObjective methods were found in the literature to assess pain in mechanically ventilated adults. Behavioral scales were the most used method for pain measurement in noncommunicative patients. Vital signs were used, but the reliability of this method was questioned. Pupillometry, bispectral index and skin conductance were found and described as pain assessment methods.
conclusionThis review showed that objective measures, as behavioral scales, are the gold standard tools to measure pain intensity in noncommunicative subjects. These data contribute to professionals' knowledge about ICU pain measurement and emphasize its importance and consequences for adequate pain management.
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