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Assessment of pain by behaviour of the patients admitted in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU)

Not Applicable
Registration Number
CTRI/2019/06/019691
Lead Sponsor
Dr Sukanya Mitra
Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
ot Yet Recruiting
Sex
Not specified
Target Recruitment
0
Inclusion Criteria

All patients in ICU irrespective of their diagnosis, treatment or ability to verbalize, the study design is purposively with broad inclusion criteria.

Common causes of ICU admission are postoperative patients following neurosurgery, orthopaedic surgery, other major surgery, COPD with acute exacerbations,Guillain Barre syndrome, sepsis, poisoning,snake bite etc.

Exclusion Criteria

(a) age <18 years (because of ethical issues in consent and also because opioid and other management may be different in the pediatric group)

(b) deep coma on the Glasgow Coma Scale because by definition these patients would be unresponsive to pain (3 or less for non-intubated and non-ventilated patients; 1 each on Eye movement and Motor responses criteria for patients on ventilator or tracheal intubation.

Study & Design

Study Type
Observational
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Pain assessment using Behavioural Pain Assessment Tool(BPAT)Timepoint: 2-3 hours after intake in ICU <br/ ><br> 9 AM everyday <br/ ><br>Procedural Pain <br/ ><br>
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Clinical utility of BPATTimepoint: Feedback from doctors - during discharge of patient from ICU;Duration of ICU stayTimepoint: Discharge from ICU;Inter-rater reliability of BPATTimepoint: 2-3 hours after intake in IC
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