A valid pain assessment is the foundation of adequate pain management. Pain assessment
can be challenging, especially in adult intensive care unit (ICU) patients who are unable to …

Objective: To update and expand the 2013 Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management
of Pain, Agitation, and Delirium in Adult Patients in the ICU. Design:

This is an updated, comprehensive review of the psychometric properties of behavioral pain
assessment tools for use with noncommunicative, critically ill adults. Articles were searched …

Introduction Pain assessment is associated with important outcomes in ICU patients but
remains challenging, particularly in non-communicative patients. Use of a reliable tool is …

Pain is a common and distressing symptom in critically ill patients. Uncontrolled pain places
patients at risk for numerous adverse psychological and physiological consequences, some …

Introduction A quality-improvement project was conducted to reduce severe pain and stress-
related events while moving ICU-patients. Methods The Plan-Do-Check-Adjust cycle was …

Many critically ill patients are unable to self-report their pain. In such situations, the use of
valid behavioral pain scales is recommended. Objective To validate the use of the Critical …

Objective Pain is a common symptom in the intensive care unit (ICU). Brain-injured patients
are often unable to reliably self-report their pain, calling forth the need to use behavioral …

Aim and objective To examine the psychometric properties and suitability of the available
observational pain instruments for potential use with nonverbal critically ill adult patients in …

Background Procedural 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 …