NCT01599663

Pain Management of Intensive Care Unit Patients

Pain Management of Intensive Care Unit (ICU) Patients. An Intervention Study to Evaluate the Effect of Systematic Pain Management of Various Groups of ICU Patients.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 650 (actual)
• Sponsor: Ostfold Hospital Trust · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of an algorithm, where ICU patients pain are assessed systematically with valid pain assessment tools and where pain is treated after pain intensity score.

Detailed description

As a pre-test, before the intervention is introduced, data from ICU patients from four intensive care units (ICU) will be collected from medical records to evaluate current pain management practices. An algorithm, which is developed by a group of resource persons, is educated to the staff in three of the ICUs. The staff will also receive training and guiding in the use of the algorithm and the different pain assessment tools. Then the algorithm will be implemented and used in all the consecutive ICU patients. Post-test data is then collected in the three ICUs. In the fourth ICU, which will be used as a comparison unit, the same post-test data will be collected at the same time as data in intervention ICUs were collected. The algorithm will not be introduced here.

Conditions

• Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Pain management algorithm	The algorithm guide the clinicians to score ICU patients pain systematically with different pain assessment tools. The tools are the Numeric Rating Scale, Behavioral Pain Scale and Behavioral Pain Scale Non Intubated. The algorithm guide the clinicians to choose between the different pain assessment tools depending on the ICU patient's condition and ability to rate his own pain. Thereafter the algorithm guide the clinicians to treat pain depending on the pain intensity score.

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-05-01
• Primary completion: 2017-05-01
• Completion: 2019-04-01
• First posted: 2012-05-16
• Last updated: 2019-04-29

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Norway