The visual analog scale: Categorizes pain along a horizontal line, ranging from mild to severe. Faces pain scale – revised (FPS–R): Uses a horizontal line, illustrated by facial expressions to ...

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Background: Though numerical rating scales (NRS) are frequently used, a subset of patients do not understand the abstract nature on NRS and use quality descriptors of severity. We used a visual analog ...

I knew why the gusto had gone out of the nurse’s voice. One of the patient’s arms was horribly broken and bent at an ungodly angle. She had just started a large-bore IV in the other.

A pain scale is a tool that doctors use to help assess a person’s pain. Here are the different types and how they’re used. ... Visual analog scale (VAS) Share on Pinterest.

Pain was assessed by using an immediate postbiopsy anonymous questionnaire including a linear visual analog scale (VAS). Six factors were studied (age, prostate volume, cores number, operator ...

Background: Some children feel pain during wound closures using tissue adhesives. We sought to determine whether a topically applied analgesic solution of lidocaine–epinephrine–tetracaine would ...

Wolfe F and Michaud K (2007) Assessment of pain in rheumatoid arthritis: minimal clinically significant difference, predictors, and the effect of anti-tumor necrosis factor therapy. J Rheumatol 34 ...

Patients with sickle cell disease who presented to EDs with vaso-occlusive crisis symptoms did not find significant pain relief from the administration of inhaled nitric oxide, researchers found.