Medicine

Use of a Behavioural Pain Scale to assess pain in ventilated, unconscious and/or sedated patients.

Jeanne Young, J. Siffleet, S. Nikoletti, T. Shaw

2006.2.1Intensive and Critical Care Nursing

DOI: 10.1016/j.iccn.2005.04.004

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The Behavioural Pain Scale was found to be a valid and reliable tool in the assessment of pain in the unconscious sedated patient and further validation of the BPS and identification of other painful routine procedures is needed to enhance pain management delivery for unconscious patients.

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YOUNG, Jeanne, et al. Use of a behavioural pain scale to assess pain in ventilated, unconscious and/or sedated patients. Intensive and Critical Care Nursing, 2006, 22 1: 32–9.