Measurement of the nociceptive flexion reflex threshold in critically ill patients - a randomized observational pilot study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Pain detection and treatment is a major challenge in the care of critically ill patients, rendered more complex by the need to take into consideration the risk of insufficient or excessive analgesia. The nociceptive flexion reflex threshold (NFRT) has become the established basis for measuring the level of analgesia in the perioperative context. However, it remains unclear whether NFRT measurement can be usefully applied to mechanically ventilated, analgosedated critically ill patients who are unable to communicate. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to investigate whether there is an association between the NFRT measurement and the Behavioral Pain Scale (BPS) in critically ill, analgosedated, and mechanically ventilated patients and whether the NFRT measurement

SUBMITTER: Schick B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8569046 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature