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Fundamental Review 10-3
Fundamental Review 10-3
Pain Assessment Scales
Resource
Website
Indications
COMFORT Scale
https://www.verywell.com/pain-scales-assessment-tools-4020329
Infants, children, adults who are unable to use Numerical Rating Pain Scale or Wong-Baker Faces Pain Rating Scale
CRIES Pain Scale
https://www.verywell.com/pain-scales-assessment-tools-4020329
Neonates (0 to 6 months)
FLACC Scale
https://www.verywell.com/pain-scales-assessment-tools-4020329
Infants and children (2 months to 7 years) who are unable to validate the presence of or quantify the severity of pain
FPS-R (Faces Pain Scale, Revised)
https://www.iasp-pain.org/Education/Content.aspx?ItemNumber=1519&navItemNumber=577
Young children in parallel with numerical self-rating scales (0 to 10). Patients choose the depiction of a facial expression that best corresponds with their pain
PAINAD Scale
https://hign.org/sites/default/files/2020-06/Try_This_Dementia_2.pdf
Patients whose dementia is so advanced that they cannot verbally communicate
Payen Behavioral Pain Scale
https://www.mdcalc.com/behavioral-pain-scale-bps-pain-assessment-intubated-patients
Can be used with intubated, critically ill patients; measures bodily indicators of pain and tolerance of intubation
Wong-Baker Faces Pain Rating Scale
https://www.verywell.com/pain-scales-assessment-tools-4020329
Adults and children (
>
3 years) in all patient care settings
0-10 Numerical Rating Pain Scale
https://www.verywell.com/pain-scales-assessment-tools-4020329
Adults and children (
>
9 years) in all patient care settings who are able to use numbers to rate the intensity of their pain