tailieunhanh - Báo cáo khoa học: "Comparison of different pain scoring systems in critically ill patients in a general ICU"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: Comparison of different pain scoring systems in critically ill patients in a general ICU. | Available online http content 1 2 1 R15 Open Access Research Comparison of different pain scoring systems in critically ill patients in a general ICU Sabine JGM Ahlers1 2 3 Laura van Gulik1 Aletta M van der Veen1 Hendricus PA van Dongen1 Peter Bruins1 Svetlana V Belitser4 Anthonius de Boer4 Dick Tibboel3 and Catherijne AJ Knibbe2 3 1 Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care St. Antonius Hospital Koekoekslaan 1 Nieuwegein 3440 EM The Netherlands 2Department of Clinical Pharmacy St. Antonius Hospital Koekoekslaan 1 Nieuwegein 3440 EM The Netherlands 3Department of Pediatric Surgery Erasmus Medical Centre Sophia Children s Hospital Dr. Molewaterplein 60 Rotterdam 3015 GJ The Netherlands 4Department of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacotherapy Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Utrecht Sorbonnelaan 16 Utrecht 3584 CA The Netherlands Corresponding author Sabine JGM Ahlers Received 19 Nov 2007 Revisions requested 11 Dec 2007 Revisions received 11 Jan 2008 Accepted 16 Feb 2008 Published 16 Feb 2008 Critical Care 2008 12 R15 doi cc6789 This article is online at http content 12 1 R15 2008 Ahlers et al. licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background Pain in critically ill patients in the intensive care unit ICU is common. However pain assessment in critically ill patients often is complicated because these patients are unable to communicate effectively. Therefore we designed a study a to determine the inter-rater reliability of the Numerical Rating Scale NRS and the Behavioral Pain Scale BPS b to compare pain scores of different observers and the patient and c to compare NRS BPS and the Visual Analog Scale VAS for measuring pain in .