Measurement of Postoperative Pain in Children by Visual Analogue Scale

Visual analogue measurement of pain.

Two separate studies were carried out to determine if three visual analogue scales for various feelings including pain could be marked consistently by patients, without reference to previously completed scales. Sixty patients undergoing extraction of their lower third molars had measurements of acute preoperative anxiety, expected postoperative pain and postoperative perceived pain three times ...

Comparison of visual analogue scale and faces rating scale in measuring acute postoperative pain.

Several pain assessment tools have been proposed for use in different settings, but neither have been validated for all patients, especially Iranians. We conducted this study to compare the accuracy of two most commonly used tools for evaluation of pain intensity in a group of postoperative Iranian patients. All postoperative patients admitted to the surgical wards of Masih Daneshvari and Rasou...

Comparison of contemporaneous and retrospective assessment of postoperative pain using the visual analogue scale.

We have assessed postoperative pain in 50 patients who had undergone total abdominal hysterectomy, using repeated contemporaneous and single retrospective visual analogue scores. There were significant correlations between the median, mean and greatest contemporaneous scores, and the single retrospective scores, but there was a wide scatter of results among and within individual patients. We co...

The visual analogue scale for the measurement of pain is not linear.

Pain relief scale is more highly correlated with numerical rating scale than with visual analogue scale in chronic pain patients.

The pain relief scale (PRS) is a method that measures the magnitude of change in pain intensity after treatment. The present study aimed to evaluate the correlation between PRS and changes in pain determined by the visual analogue scale (VAS) and numerical rating scale (NRS), to confirm the evidence supporting the use of PRS. Sixty patients with chronic spinal pain that had a VAS and NRS record...