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Assessment of pain by behaviour of the patients admitted in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU)

Behavioural pain assessment and its clinical utility in patients admitted in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU)

Status
Active, not recruiting
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Observational
Source
CTRI
Registry ID
CTRI/2019/06/019691
Enrollment
400
Registered
2019-06-17
Start date
Unknown
Completion date
Unknown
Last updated
2021-11-24

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Conditions

Health Condition 1: O85-O92- Complications predominantly related to the puerperium Health Condition 2: E00-E89- Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases Health Condition 3: V00-Y99- External causes of morbidity Health Condition 4: I10-I16- Hypertensive diseases Health Condition 5: S00-T88- Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes Health Condition 6: M96-M96- Intraoperative and postprocedural complications and disorders of musculoskeletal system, not elsewhere clas

Interventions

Intervention1: Behavioural Pain Assessment Tool(BPAT): As per the suggested clinical guidelines by the authors of BPAT, patients scoring 4 or more on BPAT (range of score 0-8) will be given appropriat

Sponsors

Dr Sukanya Mitra
Lead Sponsor

Eligibility

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: All patients in ICU irrespective of their diagnosis, treatment or ability to verbalize, the study design is purposively with broad inclusion criteria. Common causes of ICU admission are postoperative patients following neurosurgery, orthopaedic surgery, other major surgery, COPD with acute exacerbations,Guillain Barre syndrome, sepsis, poisoning,snake bite etc.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: (a) age (b) deep coma on the Glasgow Coma Scale because by definition these patients would be unresponsive to pain (3 or less for non-intubated and non-ventilated patients; 1 each on Eye movement and Motor responses criteria for patients on ventilator or tracheal intubation.

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frame
Pain assessment using Behavioural Pain Assessment Tool(BPAT)Timepoint: 2-3 hours after intake in ICU 9 AM everyday Procedural Pain—

Secondary

MeasureTime frame
Clinical utility of BPATTimepoint: Feedback from doctors - during discharge of patient from ICU;Duration of ICU stayTimepoint: Discharge from ICU;Inter-rater reliability of BPATTimepoint: 2-3 hours after intake in ICU—

Countries

India

Contacts

Public ContactDr Sukanya Mitra

Government Medical College and Hospital

drsmitra12@gmail.com9646121521

Outcome results

None listed

Source: CTRI (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026