Anaesthesia | Pain | Acute Pain: History, Examination and Simple Uni-dimensional Tools
Acute Pain: History, Examination and Simple Uni-dimensional Tools
Session Overview
Description
This session is an introduction to the assessment of acute pain. It will cover history taking and physical examination, concentrating on the measurement of pain, particularly the use of simple unidimensional tools.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this session you will be able to:
- Explain the role of assessment in acute pain
- List the important aspects of pain history taking
- List the important aspects in the physical examination of a patient with pain
- Describe some of the common unidimensional tools used for measuring acute pain
- Describe the role of behavioural assessment
Prerequisites
Before commencing this session you should:
- Module 01/Preoperative management/Preoperative assessment relevant to anaesthesia/History and examination (001-0023)
- Module 02/Preoperative Assessment/History/Preoperative history - important principles (001-0128)
- Module 02/Preoperative Assessment/Examination/Examination - important principles (001-0130)
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