Assessment of pain by behaviour of the patients admitted in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU)
- 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
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.
(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
Name Time Method 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
Name Time Method 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