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Pain in Intensive Care

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Key Topics in Management of the Critically Ill

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Abstract

Pain, ‘an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage’ [1], is the most common symptom reported by patients in the intensive care unit (ICU). However, pain is frequently underrecognised and ineffectively managed in the critical care setting [2, 3].

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Wordsworth, H., Laycock, H. (2016). Pain in Intensive Care. In: Vizcaychipi, M., Corredor, C. (eds) Key Topics in Management of the Critically Ill. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22377-3_5

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