Perception of pain in post-surgical patients in intensive care units.

CONCLUSIONS: The post-surgical patients reported pain during the first 24hours following admission to ICU (max score 5.59±.26). The nurses underestimated the patients' reported pain. Improving nurses' education would provide them with assessment strategies for better pain management. Age, sex, anxiety and helplessness caused by pain, were variables that significantly influenced pain. PMID: 31010777 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Enfermeria Intensiva - Category: Nursing Tags: Enferm Intensiva Source Type: research