Objective Pain Assessment: How Far Are We?
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Pain treatment is one of the major challenges in clinical practice due to its subjectivity for communicative patients but also due to no pain measurement device for non-communicative patients. It is crucial to have an optimal pain treatment in order to avoid issues as overor under-dosing; long period of recovery, etc. Therefore, an objective pain assessment is of key importance step in providing good pain management. This article will review the latest developed devices/methodologies/techniques for pain management.
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تاریخ انتشار 2018