Abstract

PAIN INTENSITY SCALES AND STUDIES COMPARING NUMARICAL RATING SCALE AND VISUAL ANALOGUE SCALE

*Sarala Kumari, Chandana Jaya, Prakash Reddy and Gopi Reddy

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Abstract

The assessment and management of post operative pain (POP) is an important part is surgical medical practice. Pain can be assessed accurately both at rest (comfort) and during movement by using various pain assessment tools. However they were different assessment techniques used to visualize or Analyse the different kinds of pain. For instance., the assessment of functional disability was well noted by using sophisticated scales (eg;- oswestry disability index. DASH questionnaire). The pain was assessed accurately by patients Biophysiological data. we currently used the Numeric rating scale (NRS) and visual analogous scale (VAS) as pain assessment tools in post operative patients (POP). The effective management was given to the patient depending on the data that was collected was by using tools. Post operative patients(POP) is both distressing and harmful to the patients. Post operative patients (POP) can be a major reason for delayed discharge, increase morbidity and reduced patients satisfaction.

Keywords: Post operative pain (POP), pain assessment tools, Numeric Rating scale (NRS), visual Analogue scale (VAS).