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  2. Pain assessment - Wikipedia

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    Pain is often regarded as the fifth vital sign in regard to healthcare because it is accepted now in healthcare that pain, like other vital signs, is an objective sensation rather than subjective. As a result nurses are trained and expected to assess pain.

  3. Vital signs - Wikipedia

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    The "fifth vital sign" may refer to a few different parameters. Pain is considered a standard fifth vital sign in some organizations, such as the U.S. Veterans Affairs. [16] Pain is measured on a 0–⁠10 pain scale based on subjective patient reporting and may be unreliable. [17] Some studies show that recording pain routinely may not change ...

  4. Pain scale - Wikipedia

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    A Chinese pain scale diagram, rating pain on a scale of 1 to 10. A pain scale measures a patient's pain intensity or other features. Pain scales are a common communication tool in medical contexts, and are used in a variety of medical settings. Pain scales are a necessity to assist with better assessment of pain and patient screening.

  5. List of eponymous medical signs - Wikipedia

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    axial compression and rotation of cervical spine to the side of symptoms causes pain Stellwag's sign: Karl Stellwag von Carion: endocrinology: thyrotoxicosis: infrequent and/or incomplete blinking, accompanied by Dalrymple's sign: Still's murmur: Sir George Frederick Still: paediatric cardiology: subaortic stenosis, small Ventricular septal defect

  6. Opioid epidemic in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Mirroring the positive trend in the volume of opioid pain relievers prescribed is an increase in admissions for substance use disorder treatments and opioid-related deaths. This illustrates how legitimate clinical prescriptions of pain relievers are being diverted through an illegitimate market, leading to misuse, addiction, and death. [33]

  7. Revised Trauma Score - Wikipedia

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    The Revised Trauma Score is made up of three categories: Glasgow Coma Scale, systolic blood pressure, and respiratory rate. The score range is 0–12. In START triage, a patient with an RTS score of 12 is labeled delayed, 11 is urgent, and 3–10 is immediate.

  8. OPQRST - Wikipedia

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    Quality of the pain This is the patient's description of the pain. Questions can be open ended ("Can you describe it for me?") or leading. [9] Ideally, this will elicit descriptions of the patient's pain: whether it is sharp, dull, crushing, burning, tearing, or some other feeling, along with the pattern, such as intermittent, constant, or ...

  9. Inflammation - Wikipedia

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    The fifth sign, loss of function, is believed to have been added later by Galen, [19] Thomas Sydenham [20] or Rudolf Virchow. [9] [15] [16] Examples of loss of function include pain that inhibits mobility, severe swelling that prevents movement, having a worse sense of smell during a cold, or having difficulty breathing when bronchitis is present.