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Pain Assessment - Coggle Diagram
Pain Assessment
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The key take away points
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Pain assessment should be carried out after analgesia has been administered, giving adequate time for it to work first.
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Remember that pain is experienced and expressed differently by all our patients, so using a range of evidence-based tools to assess pain is important.
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Type of pain tools
Unidimensional – acute pain, self-report, assign a value to patient’s level of pain, e.g.: VAS.
Multidimensional – chronic pain – assess the severity of pain and its impact on daily functions, e.g.: brief pain inventory (BP).
Diagnostic questionnaires – distinguish between neuropathic and nociceptive pain, e.g.: Pain DETECT
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FLACC is one tool that can be used FLACC (Merkel et al. 1997) This is a resource that can be used for this age group.
The Premature Infant Pain Profile (PIPP) (Stevens et al 2014) This resource can be used for this age.