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01-02-2011 | Poster presentation
Skin conductance variability in ICU patients: an observational study of the relation to pain and Motor Activity Assessment Scale level
Authors:
AC Günther, AR Schandl, H Storm, P Rossi, PV Sackey
Published in:
Critical Care
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Special Issue 1/2011
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Excerpt
Many patients describe pain and other adverse feeling from their ICU stay and the impact of such feelings impacts long-term psychological morbidity. Presently no objective method for detecting pain or distress is available. Skin conductance variability has been investigated as a monitor of perioperative pain. The method has not been studied in adult ICU patients. …