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Management of Pain in The Intensive Care Unit

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Last updated: 03 Jan 2025

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Background: Pain assessment in ICU patients turns out to be a daily challenge for the attending teams, particularly in those patients who are intubated endotracheally; on mechanical ventilation or analgosedated as such patients are unable to self-assess existence and intensity of pain. Guidelines to identify pain in these patients are crucial for physicians for effective management.
Methodology: We conducted this review using a comprehensive search of MEDLINE, PubMed, and EMBASE, January 1994, through March 2017. The following search terms were used: pain management in ICU, pain in ICU, pain assessment by behavior, pain assessment in intubated patients.
Aim: Our aim in this study was to understand how to assess and manage pain in an intensive care unit patient, particularly those patients who are unable to self-report or assess.
Conclusion: Physical clues given by comatose or intubated patients in critical care unit must be used as a method to identify existence of pain, and must be managed effectively to decrease discomfort and prevent short and long term adverse effects.    

DOI

10.12816/0041536

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Intensive care unit pain assessment, ICU pain management, guidelines to pain management

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Fatimah Abdulwahab

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Alhawaj

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Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University

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ZohairRadi

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Alghazal

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Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University

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Mohammed Saleh

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Alonazi

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Imam Muhammad Bin Saud University

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Nura Nasser

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Alahmadi

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Taibah University

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Almutari

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Abdulmajed

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Semmelwies University

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Ali Mohammed

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Alhijab

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Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University

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Imtinan Abdulrahman

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Malawi

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Batterjee Medical College

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Sohaib Osama

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Baarimah

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Umm Al-Qura University

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Abdulhadi salem

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Towairqi

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University of Jeddah

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Volume

69

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4

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2178

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2017-10-01

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2018-08-29

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2017-10-01

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2,323

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2,328

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1687-2002

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2090-7125

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The Egyptian Journal of Hospital Medicine

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https://ejhm.journals.ekb.eg/

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Management of Pain in The Intensive Care Unit

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22 Jan 2023