Assessing Pain at Face Value

Acello, Barbara

doi:10.1097/00000446-199906000-00013

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“…In summary, nonverbal methods to elicit information on pain have become commonplace in other groups who have difficulty communicating, including neonates and young children 21 and the frail elderly. 22,23 Those with poststroke aphasia will benefit from similar attention to their needs for pain identification.…”

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Eliciting Information on Differential Sensation of Heat in Those With and Without Poststroke Aphasia Using a Visual Analogue Scale

Korner‐Bitensky

Kehayia

Tremblay

et al. 2006

Stroke

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Background and Purpose-Aphasia can result in an inability to communicate the presence, location, or intensity of pain.Although visual analogue scales (VASs) exist, it is unknown whether they are useful in assessing pain in individuals with aphasia. The objective was to determine whether those with poststroke aphasia could respond differentially to thermal stimuli of varying intensities using a standardized VAS. Methods-Five groups of participants were assessed: those without stroke, those with stroke but without aphasia, and 3 groups with varying degrees of aphasia. A 10-cm vertical VAS was used to measure responses to varying thermal intensities delivered on the participant's forearm. Results-Across all 5 groups, a similar proportion demonstrated ability to discriminate between 2 temperatures ( 2 ϭ1.899; Pϭ0.75). When presented with 4 temperatures, all groups performed more poorly, yet with similar success rates across groups ( 2 ϭ0.1267; Pϭ0.88). The repeated-measures ANOVA revealed no effect of group but a significant effect of temperature (PϽ0.0001). Conclusion-

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confidence: 99%

Eliciting Information on Differential Sensation of Heat in Those With and Without Poststroke Aphasia Using a Visual Analogue Scale

Korner‐Bitensky

Kehayia

Tremblay

et al. 2006

Stroke

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Emergency department analgesia for fracture pain

Brown

Klein

Lewis

et al. 2003

Annals of Emergency Medicine

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A new instrument for pain assessment in the immediate postoperative period*

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Summary Perceptual‐cognitive impairment after general anaesthesia may affect the ability to reliably report pain severity with the standard visual analog scale (VAS). To minimise these limitations, we developed ‘PAULA the PAIN‐METER®’ (PAULA): it has five coloured emoticon faces on the forefront, it is twice as long as a standard VAS scale, and patients use a slider to mark their pain experience. Forty‐eight postoperative patients rated descriptive pain terms on PAULA and on a standard VAS immediately after admission and before discharge from the postanaesthesia care unit. Visual acuity was determined before both assessments. The values obtained with PAULA showed less variance than those obtained with the standard VAS, even at the first assessment, where only 23% of the patients had regained their visual acuity. Furthermore, the deviations of the absolute VAS values in individual patients for each descriptive pain term were significantly smaller with PAULA than with the standard VAS.

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Assessing Pain at Face Value

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Eliciting Information on Differential Sensation of Heat in Those With and Without Poststroke Aphasia Using a Visual Analogue Scale

Eliciting Information on Differential Sensation of Heat in Those With and Without Poststroke Aphasia Using a Visual Analogue Scale

Emergency department analgesia for fracture pain

A new instrument for pain assessment in the immediate postoperative period*

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